A little more than a year ago, I began the study of Christian Science, although I had previously read many of Mrs. Eddy's books, and had laid them aside with regret that I could find nothing practical in them.
Physical conditions, however, which failed to respond to material remedies, sent me back to them, this time with the determination to search until I should find the Truth, if there were any to find. I had long been an agnostic, not from choice, but because in every direction there appeared to me so many inconsistencies. Even the Bible was a sealed book, and but seldom read.
Providing myself with the different books, the periodicals, and a healer, I went to work in earnest, It was not long before my entire time was given to reading and study, nothing else was in my mind, but the days grew into months, and there appeared no light. Instead of an inspiration, the mid-week meetings brought nothing but discouragement, as almost without exception, the testimonies were of instantaneous healing, and no one seemed to have difficulty in understanding Christian Science, while to me Science and Health was a series of contradictions, which I could not unravel.
