Christian Science was presented to me nearly twenty years ago by one who proved to be a very dear friend, and at a time when I was facing what seemed to be a vacuous future. I had few, if any, resources from the mortal point of view. I was destitute of funds, and destitute of such friends as could help me. I did not know what to do or where to go. But the picture changed almost immediately. Since then I have never been without pleasant and productive activity. Moreover, since I have been a student of Christian Science I have received no treatment from the medical profession.
In the year 1929 I had been engaged for more than ten years in a business profession. In the early fall of that year it was my privilege to attend a conference of industrialists, at which a world-renowned economist spoke and predicted a severe business breakdown unless certain adjustments were made immediately. As we all know, that breakdown did come very soon and was followed by several years of economic distress. I returned to my office that day very much impressed with the unfavorable forecast. But suddenly the thought occurred to me that, through Christian Science, I could exempt my business and myself from any perplexing law of human economy. I began systematically that day, and continued for many months, to realize the omnipotence of divine Principle. I worked to establish and maintain in my consciousness the fact that I was not primarily dependent upon mortals or money, but upon God, infinite good, and that I was immune from mortal laws of action and reaction. I studied the Bible Lessons in the Christian Science Quarterly daily. I tried constantly to hold to the fact that God alone sustains and prospers man, and that I could not be affected or influenced by erring mortal beliefs or by seeming world conditions. The four years following 1929, as long as I remained in business, proved to be the most prosperous years I had ever enjoyed. My business earnings for any one of those years were much greater than for any previous year.
This is but one of the many undeniable proofs I have experienced of the ever-present power of God revealed to us through Christian Science. Two inspired statements made by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, have remained almost constantly in my thought. On page vii of the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she says: "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings." And on page 128 of the same volume she says: "The term Science, properly understood, refers only to the laws of God and to His government of the universe, inclusive of man. From this it follows that business men and cultured scholars have found that Christian Science enhances their endurance and mental powers, enlarges their perception of character, gives them acuteness and comprehensiveness and an ability to exceed their ordinary capacity."
