I applied for class instruction in Christian Science during the same year in which I was married. As I had only two weeks' vacation, I gave up the opportunity to have a honeymoon so that I might spend the time in class. This step mightily blessed me. I can never be grateful enough for the pure and practical teaching given in class. The fact that Mrs. Eddy, through the Manual of The Mother Church, made it possible for us to avail ourselves of this privilege is but another of the innumerable illustrations of her great love for humanity.
Again and again in the more than thirty years that have intervened since I went through class, my friends and acquaintances have said, "You are the one person I know who has no problems." The revelation that came through class instruction gave me such a joyous sense of man's oneness, or unity, with God that whatever the difficulties have been, they have not taken away my God-given joy. Problems became opportunities to prove more convincingly the power of Christian Science.
The number of difficulties encountered have been amazingly few. Through the application of Christian Science I have been helped in having four children and in caring for them. Broken bones, abscessed ears, which caused temporary deafness, impetigo, measles, whooping cough, and influenza were so quickly healed that in later years the children could scarcely remember them. One of the children never missed a day at school due to illness.
