After doing quite an amount of writing one day, the typewriter acting very nicely, all at once I noticed it did not feed straight, making the work look very badly. Believing I understood the mechanism of the machine, I endeavored to remedy the trouble, but with no good results; the paper, which moves around a cylinder in printing, would not move evenly, consequently the work was imperfect and of no use.
Again and again I would screw, and unscrew, and oil, and try my paper, but with no better results, and my work had simply come to a stand-still. Again I tried the machine, but all my efforts seemed ineffectual. I sat back, almost on the verge of despair, fearing I should have to call in aid (and this I did not wish to do), when my eye fastened upon a little spring that I had taken no notice of before, and in looking at its corresponding spring, I saw that it had slipped out of its proper place. I very carefully replaced it, put in my paper, and commenced writing, and the result was perfect. No amount of screwing, or unscrewing, or oiling righted the wrong; the little spring had slipped on the wrong side, and had to be adjusted before I could bring out perfect work.
And thus has it been with my work in Christian Science. I have wondered why some of my demonstrations were not better, more complete, when upon investigation I have found some thought, or desire on the wrong side, on the side of matter away from Spirit, and no amount of reading, thinking, or trying to realize would do the work. Principle had to turn that thought or desire on the side of Spirit, in proper position for Christian Science work, and then it was marvellous how obstacles cleared away, and some things I feared to meet melted into nothingness. I had only to meet them in thought, be willing to do or endure, and Divine Love took care of the rest.
