I was introduced to Christian Science through the healing of my mother. While visiting relatives, I received a message that she had been taken to the hospital after being stricken with great pain. It took about three hours for my husband and me to reach the town in which my parents lived. On arrival at the hospital, our family doctor told me that there was absolutely no hope and that I must prepare myself for her passing.
Mother's condition had been diagnosed as a ruptured gallbladder. She had been rushed to the operating room where it was found that peritonitis had already set in. And her heart condition was very bad. Because of the seeming hopelessness of Mother's condition, the gallbladder was not removed. She was simply taken back to her room.
As we sat in the hospital waiting room, I remembered that Mother had written me that she had been attending a Church of Christ, Scientist, since visiting in the Middle West a sister who was interested in Christian Science. A member of a family who were Christian Scientists guided me to the Journal, in which I found a practitioner listed in the town.
