I am a living testimony to the healing power of Christian Science. I was born a blue baby and was not expected to live. Through Christian Science I was healed. When I was attending college, it was necessary for me to have a physical examination. No evidence of that condition was present.
I had the privilege of attending a Christian Science Sunday School from the age of two to twenty. I joined The Mother Church, had class instruction at an early age, and was an active member of a Christian Science college organization. This church activity brought me to a decision in my mid-twenties.
One night I came home from a date with an Air Force man who was to leave the next day for active duty. I was unhappy and did not know what I could or should do to help. Although it was midnight, I got my Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy and started to read, as I was in the habit of doing. I thought I had had many disappointments in people, jobs, and a chronic condition of tonsillitis that had not yielded to my prayerful work. As I read, I realized that I had been trying to keep appointments with self-will, human planning, self-pity, self-justification, self-indulgence. No wonder I was unhappy and at loose ends!
