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.

The Bible statement, "Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared" (Ex. 23:20), became my staff, and I began at once to apply what I was learning in Sunday School and through my daily study of the Lesson-Sermon, found in the Christian Science Quarterly. Great progress in employment opportunities and a small scholarship enabled me to complete a bachelor's degree in music education.

When teaching did not seem satisfying, once again I felt a need for direction and help. Another Bible promise, "In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths" (Prov. 3:6), came to me, and by placing an advertisement in The Christian Science Monitor, I found a very happy home with a woman who was an experienced Christian Scientist.

Soon thereafter, with the help of a practitioner, a famous department store asked me to assist them in opening a new musical instrument section. The new home, happy work, and many companionships brought much joy and progress. More spiritual growth unfolded through membership in The Mother Church, through many helpful experiences in branch church activities, and through regular study of the Christian Science periodicals.

Although I maintained a degree of success in solving problems, I still felt inadequate at times and often wanted to withdraw from outside contacts. Once again I was reminded of a verse from the Bible, "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). The realization then dawned that I could learn to love the world that God loved—His own perfect creation—the only world God saw. The woman with whom I lived gave me a gentle hint that class instruction in Christian Science would make life easier for me. This kind word and my own desire to increase my understanding helped me to apply for class instruction, and I was accepted by a teacher.

Great peace and strength were gained during those glorious days of class. I then went forward as though with armor on and with shining new weapons. A position was offered me in another state which provided living quarters, rewarding service to college women, a substantial income, and eight weeks' vacation every year. The new weapons were put to use immediately to realize the truth for myself whenever a student needed help, and, on occasion, to help those seeking the aid of a Christian Scientist.

After a very fruitful year, the confinement of the work created a desire for companionship of my own age and a center for my affections. During the next two years both the college and the Christian Science Society in town were in need of my services, and I knew I would need God's help more than ever to solve my personal problems as well as those of the people I served.

A list of God's qualities became my close companion, and I constantly reminded myself of Mrs. Eddy's comforting statement from Science and Health (p. 494), "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need." In the spring of the third year, healing and freedom came. By the following fall, God's loving guidance released me harmoniously from all employment and church duties and provided capable replacements both at the college and in the society.

I then moved to another state, where in one month's time I became acquainted with another student of Christian Science who met my every need as a companion. Several years later we were married.

So many marvelous demonstrations of the truth of Christian Science and of God's presence came in the unfoldment of the above experiences that it would take a book to tell them all. My gratitude is very great to God, our Father-Mother, for His Son, Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, and for Mrs. Eddy, who discovered the Christ Science and revealed the Bible to be a clear means of salvation for the world.—(Mrs.) Marjorie Marie Urban, Boulder, Colorado.