"Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing" (Ps. 100:2). This is exactly what Christian Science has enabled me to do, for it has given me an inner joy where before was only emptiness. I would like to express my gratitude for the three events which stand out in my experience above all else: my own discovery of the existence of Christian Science; the privilege of being able to come to the United States and make my home here; and Christian Science class instruction.
Some years ago I sadly realized that I no longer cared to live. Viewed materially, which was the only way I knew at the time, life was a mockery. I had tried hard to discover some worthwhile reason for existence, but seemingly to no avail. One evening, while sitting in a London park, I began to pray. I had never been at such a low ebb mentally. Now I humbly asked to be given the key which would unlock for me the true nature of being. After a while I got up to leave, and while waiting on the street corner, I looked up and saw a sign pointing to a Christian Science church. It gave the hours of Sunday sendees and Wednesday testimony meetings. That evening was a Wednesday, and instantly I knew that I belonged at the meeting.
Many years before, as a small child, I had been sent to a Christian Science Sunday School for a brief time and had never forgotten a healing of earache from which I had suffered greatly until that time. But I had no idea that Christian Science did anything but heal physical sickness. I knew nothing of what I would find at the meeting. I was not even sure that I would be admitted, since I noticed the time showed the meeting would already be half over. To my joy I was welcomed, and at the end of the remaining half hour I knew I had found the truth.
