"Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord" (Ps.144:15). Christian Science has brought me true and increasing happiness through many healing experiences. When I was a child, I recovered after a physician had said he did not believe I could live unless an antitoxin was used. Because the member of the family who had called the doctor was fearful of it, no antitoxin was given, and the doctor was dismissed. Through the work of my mother, who was a new student of Christian Science, and the practitioner who was helping her, the illness was quickly overcome. The physician later told my father that my recovery was remarkable.
When I was a pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School, my interest in Science was roused by these words of Mrs. Eddy from the textbook: "Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized" (p. 167). They began to change my attitude toward Science from one of resentment, because it seemed to set me apart from school friends, to one of appreciation. In college this thought of "radical reliance on Truth" many times helped me to decide quickly and confidently for action in accordance with Science, although other courses of action looked more advisable. Much desirable activity and spiritual growth resulted.
Later the privilege of working in a branch church with loving, consecrated Scientists made me aware of the truth in another ringing appeal (ibid., p. 451), "Christian Scientists must live under the constant pressure of the apostolic command to come out from the material world and be separate." About this time members of the Armed Forces who were Christian Scientists were asked to identify themselves as such rather than as Protestants. That appealed to me as a right thing for all Scientists to do at any time, but I felt that the nature of my employment made such action foolhardy. I therefore began to seek activity more compatible with Science.
