Christian Science Lived

As a young child I attended a Christian Science Sunday School in Oregon. When I read Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, I felt here was something tremendous in this book, and I knew instinctively that it was the Truth. But unfortunately I did not see it lived in very many lives in the people in that Boston-affiliated church. I knew in my heart that God healed, I just didn’t see much of it going on.

That continued until I met a practitioner in the Plainfield church, who was different. She healed. She healed me of one problem after another. Illnesses were healed, family and business problems were healed. Things were healed in my life by God through Christian Science prayer. With each healing I could feel the tremendous power that I had felt every time I read this textbook as a child — it was the power of God. It was so different, and so right, that my wife and I moved to Plainfield from California, to be part of this church, to start our family here, and do what we could to work for God.

It didn’t stop there because the practitioner, who became a teacher appointed by God, never stopped teaching. She taught me not to be content with unhealed problems anywhere in my life. She taught me that Christian Science is not something you pull out of a bag when you need a problem solved, but that it is a way of life to be lived every day. This was so different from anything else I had ever seen. I knew it was the Truth that I had been looking for as a child. It was the answer to a prayer. I see it now as the only key to living a worthwhile life.

I thank God for this practitioner and this church. I am grateful for Mary Baker Eddy for discovering and giving this Science to mankind, and for Christian Science as it is properly lived and taught in this church.