When I first learned of Christian Science...

Josephine Pohle

When I first learned of Christian Science in February, 1933, I was in a very low state of mind. I had always considered that I did not amount to much and thought that I could never have anything in this world.

I was sitting by my window, despairingly contemplating my situation, when I picked up a Sentinel, which my mother, who was visiting us at the time, must have picked up from a literature distribution box. I opened it and read the first paragraph, which contained a sentence to the effect that man is God's image and likeness, perfect and eternal. This was a revelation to me. I had never read anything like that before. In that instant I was so uplifted I could see and understand that statement to include all mankind, even me. I saw everything quite differently from that time on.

I purchased the textbook by Mrs. Eddy and read it from cover to cover. Everything I read was what I felt I had always wanted. Everyone in my family and at the office where I worked noticed a big difference in my attitude after that. I felt as though I were walking on air.

Recently I had a healing of a growth on the top of my head. For a long time it did not bother me much except when I combed my hair. The beauty operator commented on its increase in size and asked why I did not have it removed. It became larger and painful, and the hair around it started to fall out. Then I became fearful and knew I had to do something about it promptly.

I began to know the truth of God and man as we are taught to do in Christian Science. I studied "the scientific statement of being," given in Science and Health on page 468, realizing that, as it tells us, "Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error." I knew that being actually God's perfect idea I could not have a material growth of any kind and that man is perfect and eternal in all ways and at all times.

I forgot about the growth until one evening, some time later, when I put my hand to my head and found that the growth had fallen off and that the hair was growing again. I was so grateful for this demonstration.

I am also very grateful for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church, for class instruction, and for all the activities of the Christian Science movement.—(Mrs.) Josephine Pohle, Phoenix, Arizona.

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