Christian Science has been a blessing in meeting the needs and challenges of raising three children. One of our sons, at age twelve, was healed of wearing eyeglasses. After he told me that he couldn't see the writing on the blackboard at school, I took him to an eye doctor to be fitted with glasses. At the same time I told our son that the glasses were only a temporary help. I began to pray for him daily, and every day we read from the Bible Lesson, found in the Christian Science Quarterly, together. As a result of this prayer and study, our son came to acknowledge that true sight is perfect because it comes from God.

Six weeks after we had begun our prayerful work together, the boy could no longer see with his glasses on. We returned to the eye doctor thinking that he needed to begin wearing a weaker pair. The doctor reexamined him and was astounded to find that the child didn't need glasses at all. Seven years have passed since that time, and our son has had no difficulty whatever with his vision. He recently took a physical examination to enter a trade school, and both eyes were recorded as twenty-twenty.

Obedience to divine Principle has paved the way for better employment for me. Eight years ago I was laid off from my job as a clerk typist. I went to an employment agency, which set up an interview for me one day. However, when I learned that the interview was with a liquor distributor, I told the woman at the agency that I did not care to keep the appointment. She was stunned. When she asked why, I explained that it was not in accord with my religion to be involved in any way in providing alcoholic beverages to people. She asked me if there were any other places where I wouldn't work. I told her that I wouldn't care to work in a hospital or a doctor's office. She told me in no uncertain terms that I would never find a job.

I continued to pray about my need for proper employment. In two weeks, through a want ad in the newspaper, I secured a job as a secretary for a college. I felt I had been rewarded for insisting on standards that were dear to me.

That job met my needs for over a year. Then I began to feel frustrated over a desire to better my position. However, I attended the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church in Boston that June and came away with the thought of being "unlimited." I realized that I had been limiting myself with human evaluations, such as feeling that I could not get ahead because I had not attended college. I decided to reverse my thinking and evaluate myself in the light of my true nature as God's reflection.

In a few weeks an employer with whom I had placed an application one and a half years earlier called and asked me to come in for an interview. I was hired as a secretary with diversified duties in a product-producing business and with a doubled salary. An added blessing was that the company was located only ten minutes from my home.

My husband, who is not a student of Christian Science, had a remarkable, quick healing. One day he had left the house in the morning as usual to work in the small business he operated. After about an hour I heard a car horn blowing outside. I finally looked out and saw my husband sitting in his panel truck. I went out, opened the truck door, and found him hunched over the wheel. He said he began feeling ill shortly after arriving at the shop and had decided to come back home. As he was driving, his hands and fingers had become stiff and he had had to steer with his arms. He was quite frightened and upset.

I helped him into the house and settled him on the couch. Then, with his permission, I called a Christian Science practitioner and explained the situation. I don't remember what she said or told me to tell him, but as soon as I hung up the telephone my husband's hands began to relax, and soon he had normal use of them. I reported this to the practitioner, and she continued to pray for him, until that evening when he no longer feared a return of the condition. This occurred over twelve years ago, and there has not been a recurrence of the problem in any form.

More recently, I appreciated the help my daughter and a friend gave me when I went through a period of mental depression that lasted for over a year. During that time I was unable to concentrate enough to study Christian Science or to pray for very long. My daughter and the friend both provided me with support and encouragement, calling on their understanding of Christian Science, as I awoke to the knowledge of my true worth as an heir of God and joyous expression of Soul.

I will ever be grateful to my mother, who introduced me to Christian Science; she was patient with me until I accepted it several years later. I was in my teens when, shortly after my mother began studying Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, she had a practitioner pray for me; I was healed of a chronic back difficulty. My ongoing prayer is to worship God by helping and healing others through divine Science.

CARRIE A. BECKER
Morrisville, Pennsylvania