Fifty years in Christian Science prompt me to express much gratitude. My introduction to Science came about when I hurriedly ran into the path of a cab, which struck me. The driver was in no way at fault. She took me to my home and later brought my wife and me a copy of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.
In less than a week I was fully recovered from the effects of the accident, just from reading the textbook, even though neither my wife nor I fully understood many of the truths we read. However, after our first reading we acknowledged with conviction that this volume contained the spiritual facts of being. We became students of Christian Science and raised a family of five children without the use of medication or surgery of any kind.
One of our sons suffered apparent pneumonia as a child, losing much weight. I remember the calm poise my wife maintained during this trial. Mrs. Eddy reassures us in the textbook (pp. 393-394): "It is well to be calm in sickness; to be hopeful is still better; but to understand that sickness is not real and that Truth can destroy its seeming reality, is best of all, for this understanding is the universal and perfect remedy."
