I found Christian Science when I no longer wanted to live. Around me I saw only sadness, the anxiety of a world in search of itself—full of questions with no answers. I had been taught to love God, but I felt completely alone facing life's troubles. I embraced a study of medicine, but when I saw its relative powerlessness in fighting disease, I was dissuaded from continuing. One by one the idols that the ignorance of centuries had erected in my heart crumbled, for I did not find in them "the truth [that] shall make you free" (John 8:32). Finally, I entreated God to reveal to me His government, to make me feel I was His child, protected and enfolded in His love.
One day my father, who had attended his first Christian Science lecture, invited me to a Sunday service in a Christian Science Society. There I found the teaching that revealed the loving God I had sought for so long. My husband and I immediately disposed of all our medicine, as we were determined to depend on God's healing power. Testing times came almost at once, but as we relied radically on the allness and oneness of God, good, our blessings were abundant. The Science of Christianity, discovered by our faithful Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, is truly the Comforter promised by our Master, Christ Jesus.
One evening our daughter, then three years old, had a persistent cough with high fever and breathing difficulty. We asked for help from a Christian Science practitioner. That night the symptoms seemed especially pronounced. But I saw the material evidence as a lie, because it could not testify to God's perfect, whole creation. The following morning our daughter was well and playing happily.
