My family became students of...

Maxine Claryce Schrepel

My family became students of Christian Science when I was a very small child, and I am so grateful for the helpful experiences I have had and have witnessed during more than thirty years. There have been healings of illness, broken bones, and burns. Grief, unemployment, and lack have been overcome; and protection has been received in our traveling. Also my husband was protected from harm while overseas during his wartime service. As my husband is in the Air Force, we have had to make many moves, and we have always found new homes promptly, regardless of crowded conditions.

I should like to tell of an experience I had when our son was born seventeen years ago in Honolulu. It was my wish to have my baby at home with the aid of a Christian Science nurse and a practitioner. The law required that a physician be in attendance; so about a month before the birth I looked for a doctor who would not insist on medical treatment.

I knew none of the doctors in Honolulu, but had a list of seven names to call on. My first six calls were very unsatisfactory and discouraging. After many hours I was in tears, worn out and ready to go home.

Standing on the corner waiting for a streetcar, I suddenly recalled a passage on the wall of the little branch Church of Christ, Scientist, I had first attended: "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mrs. Eddy, p. 494). Immediately I felt rested, and when I looked up I was standing in front of the office building of the doctor whose name was the last one given on my list.

I found him a most considerate man. He expressed pleasure in taking my case, and knowing that I was a Christian Scientist he realized without my saying so that there was to be no medicine given. When the time came there was a very harmonious and quick birth. It occurred on a Saturday, and I missed only one Sunday of my regular church attendance.

I am sincerely grateful for my early training in Christian Science, for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church, for the Sunday Schools, the Wednesday testimony meetings, the Reading Rooms, and all the other activities of our Cause. For the loving practitioners I am most thankful. My gratitude for Mrs. Eddy is boundless. Every day I watch and pray that I may truly be worthy of being called a Christian Scientist.—(Mrs.) Maxine Claryce Schrepel, Amarillo, Texas.

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