Christian Science was first mentioned to me while I was...

Oscar C. Wright

Christian Science was first mentioned to me while I was attending one of the first officer training camps during the World War. It was the custom of citizens living in the city near by to open their homes to soldier boys attending this camp. The home in which I was entertained with others was that of a Christian Science practitioner, who gave me a little pamphlet on the subject. I read this little booklet many times, but it was beyond my comprehension.

Many months later, while I was stationed at an army flying field in a southern state, a fellow officer had what was considered a marvelous escape from death in an accident in which his plane was completely demolished, but from which he was removed with only a few scratches. He was out of the hospital in a few days. Afterwards it became known around the quarters that this officer was a Christian Scientist. This made quite an impression on me.

After the war I married a girl whom I had known before the war. She had been raised as a Christian Scientist since early childhood, but we had not discussed religion until shortly before our marriage. Soon after we were married I asked my wife to explain Christian Science to me. At the time I was suffering from chronic constipation and all the other minor ailments that usually go with such trouble. Army doctors claimed that it was a condition which had been coming on me for a long time and would take a long time to cure, and then only with proper dieting and so forth. The explanation which my wife gave me about Christian Science awakened in me a spark of receptivity and understanding. I took up the study of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, at once, and in about two weeks I was healed. All medicines were destroyed, and there was a considerable supply on hand at the time. This healing took place about sixteen years ago and has been permanent.

Since that time Christian Science has been my daily guide, comforter, and only physician. It has been of great help to me in the business world. I have had many other healings, the most outstanding one being the healing through absent treatment of a nervous breakdown of such a serious nature that many thought I was becoming insane. The smoking habit, of many years' standing, was overcome about four years ago, also the social drinking habit; coffee, tea, and other stimulants were discontinued about the same time. Other healings include those of burns, headaches, and colds. We have two children, one fourteen years of age and the other seven, who know nothing of materia medica, having been reared entirely by the aid of Christian Science.

I am grateful for all that Christian Science has meant to me, for membership in The Mother Church and a local branch church; also for activity on various committees in the branch church. The Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly are a source of daily comfort and help to me. Our regular subscriptions to The Christian Science Monitor, Journal, and Sentinel, are the means of much continuous joy and happiness. These periodicals are read regularly and rather thoroughly as they arrive. Each member of the family has his or her favorite part in these publications and looks forward to their arrival.

Oscar C. Wright, Louisville, Kentucky.

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