I am grateful for the experience of Christian Science Sunday School from an early age; also, that I was able to join The Mother Church and a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, while still a teenager. After going to college, I regularly attended the local branch church and joined the Christian Science organization at the university. All these were a great source of strength and inspiration throughout those years.
During my second year at college, while I was preparing to take the first part of the degree examinations, my director of studies called me in and said he was certain I was not working hard enough. At that time I was involved in preparing readings for the weekly testimony meetings of our college organization and helping to organize a Christian Science lecture for the university community. Although trying to accept the rebuke in the spirit in which it was meant, nevertheless I was even more grateful for the thought that I could not be penalized for sincerely trying to put first things first. God's law of good would not allow that.
Some months later when I was preparing for more exams, I sat over my books one day paralyzed by the fear that I couldn't possibly review all the work covered during the previous eighteen months of intensive and detailed study. I was haunted, too, by the thought that my prospective teaching career depended on the one week of examinations that was fast approaching. The fear broke only after I had telephoned a Christian Science practitioner and asked her to pray for me. Immediately I felt the support of her prayers as it struck me forcibly that my career did not depend on exams but on God—that I could only express His purpose, and that His will was omnipotent— all-powerful. I saw too that nothing could obstruct God's will, that lack of time could never be a factor.
