My parents are earnest students of Christian Science, and when I was still a baby, I was healed of crossed eyes. For a year my parents tried to work out the problem through their own study and prayer. Finally they asked for the help of a practitioner. She kept them busy studying passages in the Bible and in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy and often they read aloud to me. The practitioner was insistent that they stick with the truth of man's spiritual being and stop looking at the problem. Within six months my eyes were completely straight.
At an early age I began attending a Christian Science Sunday School. The truths that I learned there gave me a firm foundation upon which to build. During my high school years I was able to successfully apply these truths to problems relating to athletics, relationships with others, and schoolwork, and to physical difficulties.
I then enrolled in a mechanical engineering course at a large university. I did this contrary to the advice of counselors who said that I was unprepared for such a rigorous course of study. Those years, during which I continued to study and apply Christian Science, showed me more than ever that man is not limited, since he is the spiritual idea of the one Mind, God.
