A yearning desire to know God led me to Christian Science. While I was in my early teens, the pupils in my class in an orthodox Sunday School were invited to meet with the minister to discuss church membership. I had never found a satisfactory explanation of God, so I welcomed this opportunity for questions. I do not remember what was said at the meeting, but I asked many questions and came away feeling that I was no nearer an explanation of God than before. After that I visited churches of many denominations in a nearby city over a period of months, and the search for God continued.
Some time after this my father was ill with a glandular difficulty, and he turned to Christian Science for healing. He had had a healing of severe bodily burns many years before but had not continued in the study of Science. However, in his extremity he turned to it once again. I knew nothing of Christian Science but was aware that he was reading a little book and that someone was praying for him. One night when things seemed very dark and discouraging, I picked up the book, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, which my father had been reading, and decided that if my father got well I would continue to read that book and find out what had healed him.
He was healed, and that fall I went away to college. I attended the services of a Christian Science Society in the town. Although I knew I had found what I was looking for and felt happier in that church than in any I had ever attended, it wasn't until about three years later that I bought my own copy of Science and Health and began a serious study of it. This study has continued for forty years, and I have depended entirely upon Christian Science through all kinds of experiences during that time.
