For four generations members of our family have been healed, blessed, and regenerated through the teachings of Christian Science. My mother was the first one. She turned to it after being told by a doctor that she would have to have an operation. Although a year earlier she had been given a copy of the Christian Science Sentinel by a neighbor, my mother knew practically nothing about this Science. But because of her fear of the operation, she asked my aunt to phone a Christian Science practitioner for prayerful help.
After talking with my aunt, the practitioner asked to speak with my mother. She then invited them both to come to her home located some distance away. This seemed almost impossible, as mother had been confined to bed for some time. But they visited the practitioner, traveling both ways by streetcar. My mother returned home in time to prepare the evening meal for the family. No operation was ever performed. In her talk with the practitioner she had found the pathway to freedom—an understanding, which continued to grow, of her spiritual relationship to God, good.
Following my mother's wonderful healing, my parents started to attend a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and my sister and I were enrolled in the Christian Science Sunday School. I often wonder if my parents realized the rich legacy that they were bestowing on their family at that time. Two of my own daughters now serve in that same Sunday School, and five grandchildren are enrolled there as pupils.
