As is true of so many others, it was physical healing that brought me into Christian Science. When I was about eight years old, during an outbreak of German measles, I came down with all the symptoms. After a few days, one eye became very uncomfortable, swollen, and discolored. The condition continued for several days, during which my mother kept me in a darkened room most of the time.
Then one of my uncles suggested to my mother that we call a Christian Science practitioner. She made an appointment and we drove to the practitioner's home, where she talked to us of God's love for all His children. She emphasized to my mother that in my true being I was not mortal at all, but spiritual—the perfect idea of God. She also brought out a point beautifully stated in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 206): "Instead of God sending sickness and death, He destroys them, and brings to light immortality." The practitioner assured us that I would indeed be healed. After the conversation we went home. I was healed that same day, and able to go back to school the very next morning.
"Healing physical sickness is the smallest part of Christian Science. It is only the bugle-call to thought and action, in the higher range of infinite goodess." These words of Mrs. Eddy's, on page 2 of her book Rudimental Divine Science, certainly are true, because after that healing, Christian Science changed our family's way of life. My brother and I were enrolled in the Sunday School at the local branch Church of Christ, Scientist. I remember it was with some delight, soon thereafter, that we emptied the bathroom cabinet of all medicine, choosing to rely solely on God through Christian Science for healing from that time on. This method has fully met our every need since then.
