In the year 1919, I was having mental trouble, and my sister had taken me to a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, several times to hear the reading of the Lesson-Sermon. I could not sit through the Sunday service in the church of which I was a member, nor could I be with people any length of time without spells of crying. I found peace in the Christian Science church, and so I began reading the Bible references contained in the Christian Science Quarterly my sister gave to me.
Each day I kneeled and prayed, "O God, please take away these tormenting thoughts in Thine own time and way." I continued to read and pray, and one morning as I was washing dishes, the fearful thoughts were so overwhelming that I rushed into the adjoining room and, dropping to my knees, reached out to God as I never had before.
Immediately I found myself standing upright, and it almost seemed that an invisible hand had reached out and lifted a weight from the top of my head, and I knew I was healed. I declared to myself that this healing power and presence would henceforth be my God. Not until this happened was I willing to read the references in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy in the Quarterly Bible Lessons.
