About eighteen years ago my piano teacher, who was a Christian Scientist, recommended that I read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. This teacher had been very good to me; so to please her I obtained a copy and began reading it. It was hard at first, because I did not really want to read it.
Soon after that I was entirely without money, food, and employment. I said to myself: "Christian Science is something which either works or it doesn't. This is the time to find out." Although I believed in God, I thought that He was capable of punishing man and that one had to petition for His favor. I began reading Science and Health again, and I found God to be altogether good. The third tenet on page 497 of the textbook took care of my belief in a God who punishes.
Within hours I received a small amount of money with which I procured food. I applied for work and got it. Afterward my professional activity grew and flowered.
