I began attending Christian Science services many years ago, while living on our ranch—about fifty miles away from any branch Church of Christ, Scientist. Eventually I found that a group of Christian Scientists were meeting in a small town nearby, so I started attending there. Soon after, we wrote to The Christian Science Board of Directors to ask about forming a Christian Science Society. The information we needed was provided, and before long the group applied to become a society, was recognized by The Mother Church, and bought a building. During this time I studied Mrs. Eddy's writings to grow in an understanding of God and His creation.
Later, after my husband's passing, I continued ranching. At one point I told the foreman that I didn't want any more medicine used for the animals on the ranch. I also told him that if I was away from the ranch and something came up with the animals, he should follow his highest sense of right. Not long after, I had to be away for a time. When I returned, the foreman told me that a fine horse I'd recently bought had become ill, and that he had taken him to a veterinarian. The vet had examined the animal but then said that there was nothing he could do for him, so the foreman had brought the horse back home. On hearing all this I quietly turned to God in prayer. Part of the interpretation of the Lord's Prayer, from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, came to me (p. 17): ". . . God is omnipotent, supreme." [The entire passage reads: "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. / Enable us to know,—as in heaven, so on earth,—God is omnipotent, supreme."] Then I told the foreman to put the horse out in the big pasture. He opened the gate to the corral and the horse walked slowly away.
When I arrived home, I went to my books (the Bible and Science and Health) and studied the Sermon on the Mount (see Matt., chaps. 5-7). I held to Christ Jesus' promise (Matt. 7:7): "Ask, and it shall be given you." Also, I pondered "the scientific statement of being" on page 468 of Science and Health and the Bible verse (Ps. 36:6), "O Lord, thou preservest man and beast." A couple of days later, I was by this corral and saw the horse come up to the water trough. He was completely free. He wasn't sick any more for as long as I owned him.
