"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." The greatest gift which divine Love has given me through the study of Christian Science is this faith which is certain of good, of Truth. Only he who has felt the emptiness and inanity of a life which acknowledges no God can imagine what it means to gain that faith to which the true and the good are the only reality. I had to travel a long way in the labyrinth of material beliefs before I was ready to turn to the teachings of Christian Science.
As a result of religious instruction received in school, I had from childhood a great aversion to religion, which later increased to hatred of God, or rather of the false concept of God which I had been taught. I finally thought I could do without God or Christianity, and since I supposed that I was acquainted with Christianity because I had been brought up in it, I sought the truth in a non-Christian philosophy about God. I very soon had to acknowledge that this, too, was powerless to give an answer to my questions and to my search for the meaning of life. Long years of suffering finally brought me to the point where I resorted to Christian Science, with reluctance, but with the faint hope that perhaps I, too, could be helped as others had been helped.
The way was not easy for me. Only with the untiring, patient help of a practitioner was I able through years of struggle to learn step by step to prove that all the errors assailing me were nothing. Hate, envy, slanders which confronted me, serious illnesses, all tried to harass me in every way possible. But as I lost my fear of evil and put my trust in God, all these beliefs disappeared into their native nothingness.
