My family, in which both grandfathers were Protestant preachers, was sincerely Christian, and I went to church and Sunday School willingly. Like many other young persons beginning to think for themselves, I soon began to look for a religion more satisfying to my reason. It was, I believe, the compelling logic of Christian Science that won me. I recall thinking, "Either there is no God, or God is omnipotent. I cannot accept that there is no God; I accept God and must therefore believe that God is really omnipotent, not intermittently so. If God is omnipotent, there can't really be any other power. I guess this means Christian Science for me, for I don't know of any other religion which follows through from the premise of God's omnipotence."
I went to talk with a local Christian Science practitioner, whose name I got from the list in The Christian Science Journal. As I had just come from postgraduate work in a large university, I tended to look to academic scholarship as the source of authority. I have always been grateful that I was led to one whose background was simple, for it helped me immensely to realize that the wisdom and sometimes the wit she expressed in her work could not possibly come from intellectual scholarship but must come straight from God, Spirit.
I joined a branch church and became active in it. I applied for and was accepted for class instruction, and for this precious experience with its annual association meeting I can never express enough gratitude.
