I would like to tell how I was led to Christian Science when I was in my early teens. Our family had recently moved to a small town, and on the first Sunday morning after our move my mother told my sister and me to go out and find a Sunday School. As we started out, a woman passed us carrying two books which we thought were two Bibles. I said to my sister: "She must be very good to have two Bibles. Let's follow her." We did so, and she led us to the Christian Science Sunday School. Later we learned that the two books this woman carried were not two Bibles, but rather the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
My sister and I attended this Sunday School for several months, and during this time I was healed of chronic sore throat, which had appeared every winter. In addition, I was healed of tonsillitis, and the tonsils have given no trouble since then. This healing came through what I learned by attending Sunday School and my study of the Bible. At that time I did not have a copy of the textbook. Later I purchased a copy, and I began to study in earnest.
I want to express my gratitude for the many gems of thought we find in the Bible, particularly for one that helped me when I had been asked to move from the house I had rented because the owner wished to sell it. He gave me ninety days to find another place. At that time houses were difficult to find, and I spent many days trying to locate something desirable. Then I found the verse in the Bible in which Jesus said to his followers (John 14:2), "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you."
The assurance that there is always a dwelling place for God's children quieted my thought. I turned to the Concordances to the Bible and to the writings of Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. In these textbooks I found helpful references to words such as "home," "heaven," and "mansions."
Some years before this experience I had heard a lecture on Christian Science, in which the lecturer had quoted the foregoing verse from John's Gospel, and he had referred to "mansions" as mansions of home, mansions of supply, mansions of joy, and so on. This thought was helpful in my work of demonstrating the truth regarding man's right place. On the day before I had to move, I found the lovely home in which I have now lived for many years.
Christian Science has been a great help in the rearing of my children, and now this truth is helping them with their children. They have had many proofs of God's care.
While I am grateful for the healings I have had, I am more grateful for spiritual growth and for a better understanding of God and of man's relationship to Him. Class instruction and church activities have increased this understanding.
I am grateful that our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, was so pure in thought that she could hear God's voice and record the truth in her writings. Through following the teachings of Christ Jesus, Mrs. Eddy was able to give us this truth even as Jesus gave it to his followers two thousand years ago.— Sacramento, California.
It gives me pleasure to corroborate the testimony of my sister and also to express my gratitude to God for Christian Science. I have experienced many healings and would like to express gratitude for our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who, through her books, gave us the truth; for the practitioners, who faithfully serve God; and for class instruction.— Big Timber, Montana..
