I spent several years in a Christian Science Sunday School learning to love the Bible and the truths given by Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. I had yet really to apply these truths to my daily life, except in time of physical sickness. Even then, rather than doing my own work, a Christian Science practitioner was called. I felt Christian Science was something that would always be there when I needed it, but felt that school and work were enough to keep me busy right then. Little did I know what I was missing.
The day came, after I was married and busy tending a young family, that my peace of mind was very unsettled. I was afraid to go too far from home for fear of "going to pieces." We were living quite a distance from a Church of Christ, Scientist, so I made the effort to attend only a few times. Soon the suggestion was that I couldn't sit still if I did go to church, or anywhere that a group was gathered. It seemed a continuous argument was going on inside me. I located my Bible and Science and Health, visited a Reading Room, obtained a Christian Science Quarterly, and began studying the Bible Lesson on a daily basis with a real desire to absorb the truths I knew were there.
The answer came to me very soon in these words: "Divine Principle is ever in operation." I held to this all my waking hours—even when doing housework or while shopping. It became a joy to discern this truth and feel the release it brought. At the time I wasn't aware that this truth may be seen to relate to Mrs. Eddy's definition of "Church." The beginning of the definition in the Glossary of Science and Health reads (p. 583), "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle."
