Perhaps those who have had Christian Science as their religion from childhood hardly realize the magnitude of its effect and the wonder of discovering that such a Science of Life exists. The permanent challenge and adventure which one's experience becomes as one applies the teachings of Science certainly "make all things new" (Rev. 21:5).
My experience had been one of relatively good health and happiness, with a certain degree of adventure and accomplishment, until I went with my husband after the Second World War to live in a tropical country. There the aimless life of pleasure and indolence seemed to corrode my very being, and extreme unhappiness resulted. I became sick and tormented as the beauty and value of living turned to ashes. From girlhood I had been accustomed to regarding unhappiness as a purification. One day I cried almost aloud, "O God, all this is worthwhile if only some good can come of it!"
That day the thought came to write to a friend and ask the name of a book he had lent me once, fifteen years before, when I was a girl. I felt it could in some way help me now. In this fashion I obtained a copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy and quickly became an eager student of Christian Science.
