When I was a young girl, my...

When I was a young girl, my father once told me that I was not sufficiently at home in the world around me. Since he was a loving father and an earnest student of Christian Science, I kept his remark as a warning. But graduation from high school, although I was successful as a student, found me quite unaware of the outside world and caring less to enter it.

Even though I had been attending a Christian Science Sunday School and had used Christian Science to solve physical and academic problems, it did not immediately occur to me to use it as a guide in the world. As a result, friends and relatives had to help launch me into a summer post and into my first year at college.

That year the United States entered World War II, and also my funds for education diminished. Faced with these problems, I suddenly did realize I could turn to God and Christian Science for help in thinking rightly about international situations as well as about my own affairs.

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