Christian Science was first brought to my notice over fifty years ago through the instantaneous healing of a Navy pal's wife. At the earliest opportunity I attended a Wednesday evening testimony meeting which, at first, held little interest for me because of the extravagance, as it seemed to me then, of calling sickness unreal. I found this view hard to accept, since I had been a member of an orthodox church for so long and an adherent of its teachings.
However, my wife and I persevered in attending services, reading the literature and studying, and soon all opposition in our thought ceased, and we eventually became members of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and later of The Mother Church. This step has not been regretted; to the contrary, from that time Christian Science has been our sheet anchor.
My first healing was the termination of severe headaches of four to five days' duration; these had troubled me for many years, and materia medica had failed to cure them. The headaches simply left me, and I have not had one since.
