Thinking that my experience, when first really depending upon Christian Science, might be of some help to a beginner I am writing the following.
I had been treated in Christian Science successfully many times by my aunt, but finally she gave me to understand that the time had come for me to work for myself. She tried to explain treatment to me and referred me to the "scientific statement of being" (Science and Health, p. 468), but I was unable to grasp the meaning sufficiently to apply it, and I seemed to be at a loss to know what way to think. I finally became acquainted with a practitioner, who asked me if God was not good. I said, yes. She then asked me if God was not all. I replied, yes. Then she said, If God is good and God is all, isn't good all? and I said, yes. For some time after this whenever I talked to her about any seeming trouble she would try to impress upon me the fact that good is all.
Later on, I seemed to have a very bad looking boil come on my face. In less than a day sharp twinges of pain seemed to go through it. I remembered what my friend had told me and tried to know that good is all, but the pain seemed to grow worse until there seemed to be one sharp twinge after another; but the louder mortal mind tried to talk the more earnestly I would try to realize that good is all. At the end of a half hour the pain began to lessen and was soon all gone, although the flesh seemed discolored for two or three days, and a slight indenture remained on my face for two or three years; but that too has since disappeared.
