Before I began reading the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, the whole world seemed a revolutionary place that held no niche for me. I went to orthodox Sunday Schools and joined three different denominations, always hoping to find the Comforter.
One day, in conversation with a neighbor, the subject of religion came up, and she told me of some people she knew who were Christian Scientists. She said that they worked with affirmations of the truth instead of merely pleading in their prayers. That appealed to me as rational.
Soon after this, a friend lent me a copy of the textbook, and these statements on page 3 arrested my thought: "We admit theoretically that God is good, omnipotent, omnipresent, infinite, and then we try to give information to this infinite Mind," and on the same page: "Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more."
