Like many others, I entertained a very erroneous opinion...

Like many others, I entertained a very erroneous opinion of Christian Science until I attended a Wednesday evening meeting, when my views underwent a change. I did not believe it possible that this new religion could be founded on the Bible, or that the beneficial results so much talked about were anything other than some form of will-power, producing a mesmeric state which caused the patient to forget for a time his bodily ills or mental troubles.

I went to this meeting in a criticizing state of mind, but came away determined to investigate the subject. I did not want opinions, I wanted facts, so I immediately secured a copy of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." The popular belief that God is Life and All, yet sends or allows death; that He is Love and All, yet is responsible for the hate manifested in this world, had never seemed reasonable to me. Consequently when I came across the statements in this text-book that God is Life and does not send death, and that He is Love and knows no hate, I was intensely interested to know if such conclusions could be substantiated by Bible authority.

I soon found myself looking up and comparing Bible references with the quotations used by Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health. The Bible statements referred to were so plain, and the passages, some of which I had committed to memory as a small boy at Sunday school, became so illuminated by her explanation, that the Bible became a new book to me, and the good result of corrected thinking manifested itself upon the body by restoring my eyesight. I had been unable to read more than the head-lines of a newspaper for years without the use of glasses. There was no use for any one to tell me that this healing was not good; that it was not founded on the Bible; that the Christian Science text-book had not been the means of unlocking to my consciousness the truth which the Master said would make us free; or that the work had been accomplished by any other than the divine will, for I had not resorted to any other means for help than the reading of the Bible together with Science and Health.

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