My first healing in Christian Science came through reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
From earliest childhood I had suffered from anemia. There were also extreme nervousness and other debilitating ailments. As a child, I believed earnestly in prayer, for my mother had said that God is good and that He knows everything. But neither prayers nor the many medicines relieved me; instead, the suffering became more severe as I grew older.
I began to wonder and question whether there was a God. Every spare moment after school was spent at the public library, reading everything I could find about religions and commentaries on the Bible. I visited churches of different denominations, hoping to find answers to my questions about God. My father, who was a learned man, could not answer me satisfactorily. I prayed more earnestly, searching for truth; but discouragement amounted almost to despondency.
