"Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, and thou hast delivered me." This is always my psalm of gratitude for having been delivered from a life of sickness and sin. Christian Science healed me of a very severe attack of influenza during the extremely inclement weather of February, 1920. I was confined to my home one week; but through the loving aid of a practitioner I was enabled to go out selling again, walking around all day in the snow and slush and bitter wind without even a fear. Prior to this healing in Christian Science I was subject to coughs, colds, hay fever, and similar ills; and I cannot remember ever passing through a winter and summer without a heavy cold.
I have been healed of smoking, quick temper, impatience, self-depreciation, melancholy, rheumatism, and the use of glasses, which I had worn for ten years and which were being made thicker each year. I then believed that my eyes were two pieces of matter that I had to move around like headlights in order to see, and that after a certain amount of use they needed to be rested and conserved. Christian Science healed me of this belief through the understanding that matter does not see, hear, feel, or understand, and that no organic construction can give matter life. I have been healed of a great fear of death through Christian Science, which gives the understanding that brings us nearer to God, Life.
Whereas I was selfish, now I am more tender. Whereas I was dishonest and always seeking the easiest and quickest method of doing business, was always looking to break the law, Christian Science has made me more painstaking and more eager to fulfill the law by being honest and loving with my comrades. Christian Science has given me the understanding of what true knowledge, judgment, and wisdom are. I was always criticized and condemned for not knowing my own mind, and for not being able to make decisions. I know now why that condition existed. I lacked faith, and was without the understanding of God, or Mind, which Christian Science gives, and that Mind, or Truth, is the all-judging, all-deciding intelligence, and that I did not have to use my own judgment in anything I undertook.
