Many years ago some couples out walking one evening saw crowds of people entering a church. Out of curiosity they went in. It was a Wednesday testimony meeting in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. Of these couples only one person returned for the Sunday service, my mother. She had been searching for a better understanding of God, and she loved every word she heard read from the Bible and from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.
My mother especially loved learning that God is Love, not a god of wrath to be feared. She took up the study of Christian Science, and when she was sure that she had found a satisfying religion for herself and her children, she enrolled my sister and me in the Sunday School of the branch church. As pupils in the Sunday School, we profited from the teaching we received, and we attended regularly.
When my sister and I were in high school, I developed a very disfiguring and irritating skin disease. Because of school requirements, the condition was diagnosed. We were told that the disease was extremely difficult to treat and contagious, and that I could not return to school unless I was well.
