When I was a freshman in high school, a classmate invited me to attend the Christian Science Sunday School. After that I became a regular attendant, and within a year, my parents, having witnessed the change for the better in my experience, began to attend a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and later became active members. From that time on, we were a united Christian Science family.
While I was in college an incident occurred which proved what our Leader, mary Baker Eddy, says in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 210): "Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited."
A diphtheria scare broke out on the campus. One night a friend who lived in my dormitory came to my room very much frightened and complained of having symptoms of the disease. She was not a Christian Scientist and did not ask for help, but I gave her what comfort I could. After she left, a sense of God's allness and ever presence came to me in the words of Hymn No. 214 from the Christian Science Hymnal, particularly the second stanza, which reads,
