As a child I was sent to a Christian Science Sunday School, although this religion was not practiced in my home at the time. However, I left the Sunday School in my teens, thinking I wanted to be more worldly. I spent the next twenty years trying to find something to take the place of Science, investigating many religions and philosophies without success. Finally, when I had young children of my own, I realized I had nothing to give them to hang on to in a troubled world. But I was disgusted with religion in general and the usual concepts of God, and I was troubled and fearful. All I would admit was that something, some force, held creation in order; but I wouldn't call it God.
I must have prayed without realizing it, because at this time I came upon an article on Christian Science in a magazine, one article in a series on various religions. When I read the synonyms for God, the word Principle stood out to me, and I realized this was what I had been seeking all along.
Then followed a series of sleepless nights, during which all kinds of arguments came to my thought, telling me why I couldn't accept Christian Science. Yet ever one of these arguments was refuted in my thinking, and I determined to start reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Since I had given my own copy away years ago, I went to a Christian Science Reading Room intending to buy a copy quickly and leave, because I did not want to be influenced in any way. As I turned to leave, the dear librarian said, "I don't believe I've seen you in church."
