I was led to Christian Science by a desire for an understanding of the Bible. As a child, I loved to read the Bible stories. While living with my parents in Alberta, Canada, the McClure Magazine was sent to our home. As reading material was scarce, my mother read to us children the article from the magazine about Mary Baker Eddy and her family, although I learned later through a reading of Mrs. Eddy's reply to it (see The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 308) that it was a biased account. Something about it made an impression on me, and I said that someday I should like to know more about Mrs. Eddy.
When I was thirteen I witnessed the healing of my sister through Christian Science. Her baby had been stillborn, and the doctor in attendance held no hope for my sister's recovery. It was then that a neighbor came in and asked them to have Christian Science help for her, but my family refused this help. However, the doctor asked our neighbor to sit beside my sister's bed while the rest of the family got some much-needed rest.
It was not long before my sister, who had been unconscious, opened her eyes, spoke to the neighbor, then fell into a natural sleep. Our neighbor told me later that she did not work for her, but she did realize the truth of God and of man's relationship to Him as His perfect reflection. The doctor acknowledged that it was Christian Science that had saved her, and a short time later he himself took up the study of this Science.
