It is with a feeling of sincere gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me that I write this testimony. About three years ago I was in the Northwest but seemed unsuccessful in my work, and for this reason I took up the study of Christian Science and sought the aid of practitioners.
A few months after this I felt led to come to Kansas, and here I became active in the oil business, but met with little success. I continued my study of Christian Science but did not seem to make any noticeable progress even though I had a faithful practitioner working for me and I read and studied faithfully and attended church services regularly. I could not get ahead, and this caused me to develop a feeling of resentment towards those around me who were successful and had money and the things that money can buy. In spite of my best efforts, I was barely making a living.
One Sunday afternoon I could find none of my friends with whom to visit, and as there seemed to be nothing else for me to do, I went to the Christian Science Reading Room; but I was lonely and felt that even God had forgotten me. I tried to study the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly, but I could not keep my thought on what I was reading, so I closed, the books and looked for something else; but I could find nothing that interested me, as I was sorry for myself and wanted human sympathy more than anything else.
