Testimony of Healing July 10, 1965 Issue

My introduction to Christian Science...

Vesta Tamzon Flexman

My introduction to Christian Science came at the age of fifteen when an aunt who was then serving as a Reader in a Church of Christ, Scientist, in another province visited us. Sometimes I read the Lesson-Sermon, outlined in the Quarterly, with her and sometimes passages at random from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.

I was suffering from a painful sense of self-consciousness and admired my aunt's confidence and poise; I hoped that Science would help me to attain these qualities. After she left, I obtained my own copy of Science and Health. I studied and read it, looking up meanings of words that I did not understand. We lived on a farm, and my only contact with Christian Scientists was through a distant neighbor who would take me to a lecture once a year.

In 1929 I came to work in an office in the city where I now live. Because I would be a stranger in the city, my mother, who was not a Christian Scientist, said to me, "You go to the Christian Science church; you will meet some good people there."

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