Up to the time that Christian Science found me at the age of ten I was sick most of every winter with such heavy colds that we always thought they would develop into tuberculosis. And because of time lost from school I was two years behind. I had an instantaneous healing in Christian Science, and have never been bothered by this difficulty since then, now thirty-nine years ago. After my healing I entered the Christian Science Sunday School, remaining until my twentieth year. In the summer of 1918, I enlisted in the Army and was sent overseas after one month's training for trench mortar work. In the months that followed, I had many proofs of protection in experiences including a collision at sea involving our transport, and sleeping on the ground in the rain during the influenza epidemic which was then raging at Brest, France, as well as in many other difficult situations.
After I came back from the service I drifted away from Science for the next sixteen years, and it was not until I found myself at the end of my rope, not caring March, 19471 whether I passed on or not, having lost my home, friends, health, and later my job, that I turned again to Science and was healed of cancer. Although I had gone through Sunday School I had never made the truth my own through demonstration. I am so grateful for the first healing from my own efforts to apply my understanding of Science. This was the healing of unemployment in 1940, and has been an inspiration and comfort ever since. For two years before this I worked only about five months on several jobs, but for one reason or another they all proved to be temporary after a short time, so that I would have to start looking for work again. I did every human thing that could be done, such as going to every place that I could and trying to get work through my friends, one of whom was the personnel director at one of the large aircraft plants which at that time was employing hundreds. Whenever I became discouraged or tired I always went to a Reading Room. During all this time, however, I always had every needful thing, and as soon as I began to get rid of my fear and forget self, things began to open up for me.
One day I was sent to see a man, and while waiting for him I went outside to look around. Across the field I saw a plant a block away that I had never seen before and which was expanding. The thought came to me that since they were building they would need more employees, and so I went there. They told me that they would not be ready for a couple of months but that I could fill out an application if I wished, which I did. Within ten days I was called for an interview, and the thing that concerned them most was how soon I could go to work. Three days after I started work, when I reached home a telegram, a letter, and a telephone call had come, offering me different jobs. I had no problem in picking the job that I wanted, however. It was the one I already had.
