Twenty-One years ago I began the study of Christian Science, not because I desired to adopt its teachings, but because I had made the acquaintance of one of its students and wished to prove to her that it was fallacious. I bought a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, thinking that were I familiar with it I could convince her that it was full of flaws. Instead, it showed me the falsity of my own reasoning and gave me a demonstrable religion. Some years before I had abandoned the theoretical one in which I had been brought up, and had since been drifting on the uncharted sea of agnosticism, looking for a safe anchorage in Truth, but failing to find it.
Within two weeks the constant study of this little but mighty book, even though undertaken controversially, distinctly enlightened my consciousness. One of the fetters which fell at once was the wearing of glasses for double astigmatism. This condition, an aggravated one,—for even with glasses I could read with but one eye at a time,—was permanently healed during that first fortnight, and sometime within a year a decided cast in my right eye which was congenital and considered incurable, also disappeared, never to return. Ever since then I have had proofs that right thinking confers freedom along all lines. My path has not been flower-strewn. Often it has been rugged; but never, even when trials seemed prolonged, has the hope of victory deserted me; and this hope, based as it is on the assurance that "with God all things are possible," has always resulted in victory. — Santa Monica, California.
