As a very small boy I was enrolled...

Lloyd C. Noble

As a very small boy I was enrolled in the Christian Science Sunday School. Unfortunately I did not grasp the import of the Science of Mind-healing until I was faced with mounting problems during five years of service in the Army.

The memory that stayed with me most after I left Sunday School was the special interest in the class expressed by our Sunday School teacher. It was the love he showed us that later kept alive my interest in Science after I strayed considerably from the paths of its teachings. The recollection of this love gave me the courage to take up the study of Christian Science once again and call upon its great healing power in time of need.

Each problem and trial has been a steppingstone to further advancement and to a workable understanding of Christian Science. I left the Army in 1945 and went to work as a civilian, but found that it was hard to adjust myself to the change. In 1946 I became an associate for a few months at the Sanatorium of the Christian Science Benevolent Association, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. This position offered me an opportunity to study and work in an atmosphere of unlimited good, and I gained a better understanding of home and companionship.

During this time I was invited to participate in The Christian Science Monitor Youth Forum, and this activity was a great blessing to me. I returned to my home city and became active in a local Monitor Youth Forum, which provided much activity and many friendships.

I had to find satisfactory employment, however. Also I lived in a rooming house which, as a home, left something to be desired. Study of the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's writings became a daily practice, and regular church attendance was maintained.

About this time I applied for membership in the branch church I was attending. The day that I was accepted I was advised that I could have a room in a nice hotel in better surroundings. A little later a position was offered me that paid adequately to justify the increased rental of the room. This same position gave me an opportunity to take class instruction from the wife of my former Sunday School teacher.

During the times when I was struggling with problems of employment and social adjustment after my return from the service, I held to these words on page 258 of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy: "God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis." Step by step I have found this truth to be unfolding in my experience.—Lloyd C. Noble, Decatur, Illinois.

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