How I Found Christian Science September 16, 2013 Issue

Healing all along the way

Marge Thornton

Although my family were not Christian Scientists, I attended a Christian Science Sunday School with a neighbor when I was six and seven. However, after my mother passed on, I was enrolled in a Methodist Sunday School. I am most grateful that in both Sunday schools, I was led to love and trust God. Because my dad traveled a lot in his work and I no longer had my mother, I remember thinking, “Well, God, You will just have to be my Mother and Father!” This was a cherished conviction of mine and very comforting as I grew up.

I was blessed to be reintroduced to Christian Science during a drive back to college my sophomore year. A friend handed me a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy saying, “You might be interested in this.” As I read it, I was “blown away” by the chapter on prayer and much that I read. 

During that semester I became very ill. I had trouble breathing and was always tired. After I was treated with many different medicines at the infirmary and was no better, I was told the school planned to send me home.

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