To workers in the Christian Science movement who sometimes feel their efforts are not effective and to all who serve so unselfishly in the Reading Rooms and Sunday Schools, I offer this testimony. If the seed of Truth is sown, it somehow, sometime, must produce fruit.
When I was a young child I spent a summer vacation with a Christian Scientist and attended Sunday School for the short time I was with her. To outward appearances, this experience made no impression on me at all.
A few years later I was in a hospital, where I had undergone an operation and had contracted ether pneumonia. I heard the doctor, who believed me to be unconscious, tell the nurse that I would be gone within the hour. I could not speak, but my mind was active. I began slowly repeating "the scientific statement of being," which I had learned in Sunday School, and which is found on page 468 of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. In the statement are these words: "Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness." I drifted into a quiet sleep. When I awoke several hours later, I was breathing normally and was well on the way to recovery. After I left the hospital, I seldom thought about Christian Science.
