Christian Science found me, a few years after the First World War, ruined financially, suffering badly from neurasthenia and claustrophobia, and a prey to constant fears for the health of our two surviving children. This acute anxiety had been brought on by the passing on of our eldest child.
I feared that I might commit suicide, but was prevented by an even greater dread, that of leaving my dear ones unprovided for. A sister-in-law, to whom I shall always be more grateful than I can say, lent us the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. I read it through three times, and I glimpsed the fact that God, or good, is man's only Mind.
It became crystal clear that nothing happens without thought to cause it. Because of the infinitude of perfect Mind, evil of all kinds must be unreal and therefore powerless. In consequence, no disease, accident, or sin has a real cause. No one is doomed to sickness, death, or misery. And there exists no dark power that can, without a "by-your-leave," rob us of our dear ones.
