I used to ponder the statement in John's Gospel, where Jesus states (14:12), "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also."
I thought: "Why do not people today do the works he said we would? Surely somewhere there is a religion which practices his teachings." With these thoughts, I was prepared for Christian Science and overjoyed when I later found it.
As soon as I had read the first chapter, entitled "Prayer," in the textbook, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, I knew I had found the religion for which I had been searching. My first healing was that of a pain in my back. The practitioner whom I called repeated "the scientific statement of being," given in Science and Health (p. 468). I could remember only the first sentence, which reads, "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter." I realized that if there is no life in matter, no truth in matter, no intelligence in matter, then matter cannot have pain. Instantly I was healed.
