The spring of 1978 found my wife and me teaching English at a small engineering college in Iran. The only hint at that time of the approaching revolution in that country was that our students were becoming rather obstreperous in the classroom and antagonistic to the school administration.
Intuition led my wife to get herself and our two children to the United States in the autumn of 1978. I returned to my job in Iran with several books on Christian Science that I had recently acquired. By mid-October, disturbances had reached such a pitch that Americans on the staff were advised to stay at our college-provided homes until it was safe to return to our teaching duties.
For me this was an unanticipated benefit. I had been wondering when I would ever find time to read my new literature on Christian Science. Seizing this opportunity, I plunged in. I read not only the daily Bible Lessons but also Science and Health, Prose Works, and the Manual of The Mother Church, by Mrs. Eddy, as well as biographies about her. During this five-month period of study and "waiting out" the revolution, a chronic back difficulty disappeared and has never returned.
