Four years ago, I was a physical, financial, and moral wreck. I applied the truths as taught in Christian Science, to these three errors; the physical defects were the first to yield and the most easily overcome. When I came into Science, I had on hand eleven different material remedies, using them as the occasion required, which was very frequently. I had also been wearing glasses for nearly seven years, and thought I could not do without them; but soon after coming into Science, I dispensed with all these material agencies, and have had no need for them since. The understanding of God's allness and perfection, that He created man in His image and likeness, and that man is God's reflection, destroyed the evidence of disease.
Next in turn to yield was the belief in a deficiency of human necessities, commonly called poverty. From the age of eighteen everything that I attempted to do resulted in a dismal failure; each year found me in greater financial distress, going from bad to worse. The understanding that man is God-created and is sustained by Him, that "Divine Love always has met, and always will meet, every human need" (Science and Health, p. 494), enabled me to overcome poverty and its attendant conditions. To-day, I am rejoicing in a very satisfactory degree of prosperity, for which I am indebted to Christian Science, and I am truly grateful.
I was once a "chief of sinners," but my constant prayer now is for that "light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun," and that my transgressions may be "blotted out, as a thick cloud," and that I may be redeemed and return unto God. But I have a work to do before this harmonious state may be attained, as "God's forgiveness of sin" is "in the destruction of sin" (Science and Health, p. 497). I must therefore recognize the claim of sin, open my heart to truth that sin may be destroyed, and make restitution therefor and all this I am trying to do.
