It has been my great privilege to have been a member of a Christian Science family all my life. The spiritual truths known for me in childhood and the habit taught me then to discipline my own thoughts, speech, and action to honor only God, include only good, have kept my human experience almost completely free from illness. For this good health, which has continued into adulthood, I give daily gratitude to God.
Faithful attendance at a Christian Science Sunday School gave me an understanding of God as divine Mind, ever present and ever reflected by man, which truth made all my schooling, including high school and college, a grand experience. Instead of nervousness and anxiety before examinations, I did all I could to realize the presence of divine intelligence, available not only to myself, but to everyone taking the examination.
There was one examination for which I asked for help from a Christian Science practitioner. This was the comprehensive examination in my major subject at college, the final requirement for graduation. The examination was a written one in two parts, on two consecutive afternoons. I studied all day and far into the night for several days beforehand, going over my notes of courses taken in the previous two years or so, and when the time came I answered the first afternoon's questions in what I felt was a satisfactory manner. But then an overwhelming sense of defeat and exhaustion came over me, as though the material I had to look over before the next day were mountainous, and I felt that even showing up for the next day's session was useless.
