Christian Science came into my life twenty years ago, through a friend who had been healed of tuberculosis. That first year there were two wonderful instantaneous healings in our family, one of a chronic bronchial cough, the other of a painful growth on the ball of the foot. In the years which have followed many other blessings have been experienced, and a richness, a cleanness, a fullness of life, such as I had never known before.
One day in July, 1934, in the middle of the nation-wide hot, dry spell, when the thermometer registered well over one hundred degrees, I let discouragement creep into my consciousness. My business is that of an advertising counselor; and because of the extreme heat, it had for weeks seemed almost impossible to get the average business man even to talk about advertising, let alone buy some. Yet my company needed more business; and the thought kept coming to me, I simply must get out on the street again; I must keep on making more calls. Then I realized that in that frantic, worried state of thought my calling on a hundred prospects would avail nothing. I realized that the most important thing for me to do was to manifest right mental activity—in other words, get my thinking right. I pondered Mrs. Eddy's words from Science and Health (p. 419), "Your true course is to destroy the foe, and leave the field to God." Who was the foe? Worry and fear. When I realized that all I had to do was to get rid of those "little foxes," and that God, the divine source of all good, would do the rest, gloom and discouragement left, and confidence and brightness returned. Half an hour later, as I was about to leave my office, the telephone rang, and a prospect on whom I had been calling for several months, but who had kept putting me off, said that he had decided to go ahead with my entire recommendation. Today he is one of our best customers.
And so—I am grateful. The past three or four years have, from a material standpoint, been the hardest, the most trying, in all my life. Yet they have abounded with love and happiness, too, with an exceptionally happy home life, and with opportunities to serve the Cause of Christian Science. I am grateful for both the blessings and the problems. I am particularly grateful for having had class instruction a few years ago. Every day I am realizing more and more the great truth of Mrs. Eddy's words (Science and Health, p. 311), "When humanity does understand this Science, it will become the law of Life to man."— University City, Missouri.
