I am very grateful for Christian Science and for all the blessings it has brought to me and mine. I was not raised in Christian Science. When I was nine or ten years old, I was sent to a Sunday School of another denomination, but I rebelled because I did not like that teaching. In our home we had been taught sound moral values, and I could not find those values in the other teaching. Now that I have found the truth as taught in Christian Science, I understand why I rebelled. What impresses me most is the fact that my father did not resent my rebelling.
By the time I was seventeen or eighteen, I was convinced that my thinking was on the right track and that I was fully justified in rejecting a teaching I did not feel in harmony with.
Then, years later, it suddenly came to me that now was the time to find out more about religion. I questioned a friend about her religion, and she invited me to a Wednesday testimony meeting in a Christian Science Society. When I attended, an alert usher made me feel welcome. Without this I don't think I would have gone back, because at first I thought that the Society was for Christian Scientists and not for others. The usher's attitude made me want to visit again and again. Later, when I had the privilege of ushering in a branch church, I always made it a point, and still do, to see that newcomers are especially welcome at our services.
