My coming to Christian Science was from the beginning, the happiest, most satisfying experience I had ever known. For some time, I had sought the explanation of several theological questions, but without success. The common theory of the atonement seemed cruel, and illogical, as well; the teaching that God is the only power and yet that there is an evil power, the devil, was likewise contrary to reason and no one seemed able to make these doctrines clear to me.
One day, I read something about Christian Science in which there was a statement to the effect that since God is all, there is no devil, and I immediately decided to investigate the subject. I went to church the next day and met there a friend who loaned me "No and Yes" and "Rudimental Divine Science" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, which I read eagerly, and thought I should try the rules I found in them and prove whether or not they were true.
Two weeks after, while caring for one who was ill with the grip, I seemed to contract the same symptoms myself. Saying nothing of my trouble to any one, I began declaring, "God, Spirit, is all, and there is none beside Him" (Science and Health, p. 421), and kept on reading the books.
