While I was attending a Christian Science testimony meeting one evening, there was a period when no one stood up to testify. I wondered why we were all there that night. I asked myself, “Why am I here tonight?” Then the realization of what the study of Christian Science has meant to me through the years flooded my thought. How could I have managed without this God-given gift! I stood up to express my gratitude.
When a young child, I was thought to be delicate, running a temperature every afternoon, subject to colds, and was frequently rushed to doctors. Finally, a child specialist told my mother to throw our thermometer into the wastebasket. He said, “There is nothing wrong with this child!” However, since this claim of poor health had been attached to me for some time, it took the understanding I later gained through the study of Christian Science to convince me that there really was nothing wrong with me.
When I was about 13 years of age, my mother suffered with severe arthritis. Medical treatment gave her no relief. A dear friend suggested she read Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. My mother read the book from cover to cover. A month later, she was completely healed, and I never heard her complain of that problem again.
