My first healing in Christian Science was as a child eight years old. I had yellow jaundice and was under the care of a doctor, but I was not getting well. Because I was in a very weakened condition, my mother became alarmed and asked a Christian Science friend to help me through prayer. This dear friend agreed to do so, and my appetite and strength returned very rapidly. I was soon healthy and happy again.
Some years later I was healed in Christian Science of a severe nervous breakdown through the loving help of a dear uncle, who was a Christian Science practitioner. Because I knew the twenty-third Psalm and it was a favorite, I repeated it over and over many times a day (verse 1): "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want" I did not study the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, because I falsely believed that Christian Scientists deified Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.
After this beautiful healing I somehow felt that it was right to become a member of the orthodox church I had been attending along with our children. But although it seemed right for me to do this, I found it was not the answer for me. I faithfully worked in this church for two years, doing all that was asked of me. Faithfully I joined in the communion services, but I could find no peace in them. Later, after I had begun attending the Church of Christ, Scientist, in my community, and was studying the Bible Lesson and endeavoring to solve all problems through this Science of the Christ, I found out how inspiring a communion service can be. During the service the inspiration of man's at-one-ment with God filled me with such light that I was in awe before it. This light of spiritual understanding surrounded me and stayed with me for days. I did not know much of Christian Science, but I knew that in it I had found the way.
