My pearl of great price is the revelation of Truth brought to me through a wonderful healing which came about simply by my reading the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
I was enrolled in an orthodox Sunday School by a loving and devoted mother, who believed in God and in prayer. But my concept of God as a sort of superman, a dealer in good and evil, left me an agnostic, and when I went away to college I fell away from all religion and did not enter a church edifice for many years.
Then one day a doctor told me I must have an operation to remove a malignant growth on my mouth. With great fear and doubt I submitted to the operation. Later I submitted to another operation for the same difficulty and to radium treatments. The following year I began to have internal trouble. Fearfully I waited and hoped it would stop. I postponed going to a doctor; but finally I went to a clinic where tests revealed that I had internal cancer.
