When I was a small child, my mother was healed in Christian Science of a severe nervous illness which followed the passing of my father. She became an earnest student, and I had the privilege of attending the Christian Science Sunday School until I reached the age of twenty. While I thereafter attended church services, I did not seek membership in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and for several years did not study the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly.
But divine Love is ever ready to put us back on the right path. A testing time came; and when I turned completely to God with the help of a practitioner, the need was met, and my thought awakened to the joy and privilege of living the truth as taught in Christian Science. Our young son was entered in the Sunday School, and I yearned for church membership and an opportunity to prove my gratitude.
However, the argument was very strong that I would have to give up many pleasant material experiences and that perhaps many friends would be lost. How gloriously wrong all this proved to be when a firm stand for Principle was taken and I was accepted for church membership! From that time more joy and happiness came into my life than I had ever thought possible. Church membership for myself and my husband has brought many blessings, including more friendships than we had ever known.
