That "God is no respecter of persons" has been proved to me, and out of gratitude for the many blessings received through Christian Science I am bringing my tithe to the storehouse. As a child I had a natural abhorrence of the different phases of mortal mind as they were presented to me. My reluctance to appreciate or indorse materia medica, corporal punishment, physical and mental restraint, was marked and commented upon. My natural repulsion to many of these institutions was gradually overcome, however, and I succumbed to mortal belief to such an extent that up to the age of effective physical resistance I was sick in bed most of the time. The whole category of children's diseases was experienced, and I was once given up to die, recovering only after the doctor had ceased to officiate and my attendants had stopped giving me medicine. Even when called well I would go to bed after supper and get up about noon the next day more tired than when I went to bed.
After many setbacks I graduated from high school and later from college. Most of this period was spent in having what is called a good time. After this three years were spent in business pursuits, when, becoming disgusted with the gods I was serving, I turned to one of our big American universities to study biology, which I at that time believed to be the science of life. In my matriculation papers I stated that the object of my study was to "obtain knowledge the better to live." I stayed one year at this university and went two years to another.
Following my study I proceeded to earn my livelihood by applying what I had learned, and worked as a professional biologist, bacteriologist, chemist, and water purification expert for eight years. As a bacteriologist I was employed in several of the large cities of this country. I have cultivated bacteria by the billion and have been able to handle them as intelligently as if they were as big as elephants. I have photographed and eaten them, investigated their morphological and physiological characteristics, and published articles about them in scientific journals in Europe.
