The first thing that impressed me about Christian Science was its consistency. Although I was only seventeen when I first learned of it, I had given a great deal of thought to God, to life, and to the nature of things. It had distressed me that I could not always depend on prayer to bring results.
I could never quite reconcile myself to the teaching of the churches I attended, because it implied the inconsistency of God and a creation that was both good and evil. In my own way I wished to worship God consistently in good times as well as in bad. But I found this very difficult to do. In fact, it was impossible.
It was while I was in this bewildered, almost frustrated, state that Christian Science came to my attention. I accepted it immediately, because I saw in it the consistency I had so yearned for. At the time I was not sure that the stand for good that Christian Science took was anything more than blind optimism, but to me it seemed better to be loyal to good alone, even if this were only a form of optimism, than to believe equally in good and evil. Shortly after I had begun earnestly to study Christian Science and to attend church services, I had an opportunity to prove that good is not merely theoretical.
