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Christian Science was first presented...

From the August 1962 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Christian Science was first presented to me when I was a senior in college. A friend who saw my need asked me to read the textbook by Mrs. Eddy. My initial skepticism melted away as the scientific logic of Christian Science unfolded to my thought. I began to apply it immediately and was soon healed of mental depression and recurrent sick headaches from which I had been suffering.

About a year and a half later I had an experience which gave me conclusive proof of the allness of God, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter. I was working as a chemist in an oil refinery laboratory. On this occasion, I had just distilled some phenol into a large glass cylinder. When I picked up the cylinder, the bottom dropped out, and hot phenol poured onto my leg. I was required to go to the infirmary, where a nurse applied some ointment to relieve the pain and bandaged the burn. She told me that blisters would form and that I could expect to stay in bed for at least ten days under the care of a physician.

All this time I had been silently declaring "the scientific statement of being" given on page 468 of Science and Health In the statement is this sentence: "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." A few weeks before, I had applied for membership in The Mother Church, and I wanted to rely entirely on God, who is All-in-all, in this emergency. At my request I was taken home, and it was assumed that I was going to call a doctor.

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