I am thankful to have been a student in the Christian Science Sunday School from early childhood until I was twenty. There the seeds of Truth were planted. But after I had reached my twenties, I drifted away from the teaching of this Science.
Years later, in the midst of the Second World War, I was homesick, sorrowful, and in great mental turmoil. I felt I must find peace at any cost. One day I opened a small Service Edition of the textbook, Science and Health, which I had kept in my Army locker but had not read for several years. Mrs. Eddy's words on page 96 caught my attention: "This material world is even now becoming the arena for conflicting forces. On one side there will be discord and dismay; on the other side there will be Science and peace."
I had read this passage many times before, but this time it had a new meaning for me. I thought of the arena as individual consciousness as well as the world scene. I saw that I could have peace no matter where I was or what I was doing. For the first time in my life I wanted peace more than anything else, and I turned to Christian Science once again. My wife and I started attending a Church of Christ, Scientist, in a city near the training base.
