In the fall of 1914, following a series of business reverses, I turned to Christian Science to find relief from worry and spells of extreme despondency, often accompanied by suggestions of suicide. When I mentioned this trouble to a dear friend and student of Christian Science, she told me the next time I was so depressed to declare, "God is my life."
A short time later, while on the street, stooped with worry and depression and asking myself, What is it all about? the thought immediately came to me, Well, God is my life. The effect was so positive it startled me. I declared then and there, "Now I know there is a power of some kind, somewhere that can help me if I can but learn what that power is;" and I seemed to realize it would come through the study of Christian Science, if I would but persist. An earnest study was taken up, hours being spent each day and evening in the study of "Science and Health with Key to Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, as at that time I was unemployed. Some progress was made. While still subject to much worry my attention was called to the following Biblical passage: "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." I had never owned a Bible, but procured one and memorized these words. For months after that, every time a thought of discouragement came to me, the words would quickly follow; and the discouragement would always leave. I have since learned that an evil thought and a good one cannot occupy the same consciousness at the same time, and that the good, emanating from God, who is all-powerful, has always sufficient power to destroy the evil.
Regular attendance at church and deep study were continued until the following July, when one day I discovered that I had but two dollars and sixty cents left, and owed two dollars and a half for rent. But I continued to trust the truth as revealed by Christian Science In less than an hour I was asked to call on the sales manager of one of the largest and best automobile manufacturers in this country. Another surprise came when asked how I should like to take charge of their branch in this city. That same evening at eight o'clock I was on the train coming to what later proved to be the best position I had ever occupied. The most remarkable part of this demonstration was that Love did not supplyl my need before it was needed, nor was it a single day late; it came on the exact day of the need.
