With the Psalmist I sing (Ps. 9:1), "I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart." Although I had been raised in an orthodox church and had attended Sunday School regularly, the Bible remained a mystery to me until I began to study Christian Science and its spiritual truths.
When our two children were old enough to attend Sunday School I enrolled them in the Sunday School of an orthodox church which was within walking distance of our home. But later I withdrew them when they became fearful that God would punish them even for innocent doing. Several years later the older son requested that he be permitted to attend Sunday School. The challenge to find a satisfying religion had to be met. I busied myself for several weeks in the search, but the Father knows what things we have need of, as Jesus told his followers (see Matt. 6:8), and He brought the answer to us in a very beautiful way.
While walking to a market I met a neighbor who had moved away because of her husband's wartime activity. Her face was so radiant and joyous that I welcomed her with the query: "What has happened to you? You look so happy!" She told me that a man working alongside her husband had been healed of cancer and that through this healing she had been led to Christian Science. She invited me to attend church with her, and when I did so I knew that my search was ended. Our boys were enrolled in the Christian Science Sunday School. The light that shone in my neighbor's face led me to the study of the key to the Scriptures, divinely revealed to Mary Baker Eddy and given to us in her book, Science and Health.
