It is high time that I openly acknowledge my great debt of gratitude to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and to the Cause of Christian Science.
Some thirteen years ago a business opportunity came to me through old friends from another city. I had been bedridden for seven weeks with inflammatory rheumatism, and as a result I was about fifty pounds underweight. The work involved considerable physical activity in building construction, and I seemed far from physically fit to accept this position. However, I realize now that I was divinely guided to make the change, as it brought me into a Christian Science home with an entirely new and different environment. It is a joy to relate that three absent treatments by a practitioner restored my health without a long period of convalescence. I gained weight rapidly and made good on the job.
Unfortunately, however, the fickle smile of material good fortune lured me away from the truth that is Christian Science, and I drifted along aimlessly until I arrived at a mighty ugly crossroads six years ago. With poverty of purse and mind came lack of supply, false pride, human will, intolerance, ingratitude, and unbelief as my seeming masters. Words will never be able to express my gratitude for the fact that Christian Science was again brought into my life at this time. I needed to learn much of humbleness, unselfishness, right desire, love, and gratitude —the sweetly simple, yet fundamental things of life—and I have been learning more of them ever since.
