My parents had embraced the teachings of Christian Science before I was born. Shortly after emigrating to the United States, my father read in a large city newspaper several attacks on Mary Baker Eddy and her religion. He thought that he should read about this religion himself to see what all the hate was about, and so he bought a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mrs. Eddy. As he read, he realized that this was the religion he was looking for and that he had been led to America to find this healing religion.
I am, of course, sincerely grateful for having had the privilege of attending a Christian Science Sunday School, and I met there the girl who became my wife.
I was one of four or five draftsmen in an architect's office, and it soon became known that I was a student of Christian Science. One day I arrived at the office with a slight cold. There were some remarks about it, and one man said most emphatically that I had hay fever and did not even know it! In Science and Health we read (p. 392): "Stand porter at the door of thought. Admitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results, you will control yourself harmoniously." Further in the same paragraph Mrs. Eddy writes, "The issues of pain or pleasure must come through mind, and like a watchman forsaking his post, we admit the intruding belief, forgetting that through divine help we can forbid this entrance." "Like a watchman forsaking his post," I had admitted this false belief and as a consequence had suffered with it at the end of each summer.
