Friends introduced me to Christian Science when I was facing several difficulties: constant illness, lack, and unemployment. At my first visit to a Wednesday evening testimony meeting of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, I was deeply impressed by the wonderful testimonies given.
From then on I eagerly began to study, together with the Bible, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, as well as other Christian Science literature. This study brought me deep, inner joy, and I felt that my life would now be directed into new channels. I resolved to rely only on Christian Science in all my problems. All the medication, which I was accustomed to through frequent illness, I discarded because I wanted to rely on God as my sole physician. The temporary unemployment was a blessing in disguise because I spent my days almost exclusively in study and in this way gradually gained a better understanding of God as Love and of man as God's expression. Very soon I was to prove that I was serious in relying on God as my sole physician.
When leaving the home of my friends one afternoon, I fell down a whole flight of stairs in the house. I could not get up, but despite intense pain immediately said aloud "the scientific statement of being" from Science and Health. The last two sentences are (p. 468): "Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual." A neighbor who heard me fall came out and called my friends, who took me to their apartment. It was evident that the upper arm was broken, and one foot was injured so that I was unable to stand on it.
