For the many blessings received through the study of Christian Science, I desire to express my deep and heartfelt gratitude. Within three days after I first started to read our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I was healed of chronic sick headaches which had held me in bondage since I was a boy four or five years of age. This healing took place thirty years ago, and it has been complete and permanent. And over this period of time I have had other healings, for which I am most grateful.
Someone may say, "Christian Science is good for headaches and minor things, but what about other problems—for instance, those met in business?" We should keep in mind that Mrs. Eddy defines Christian Science thus (Rudimental Divine Science, p. 1): "As the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony." So when we live according to the teaching of Christian Science, we are constantly abiding in "the law of God, the law of good." Therefore we can never find ourselves in a situation where the law of God, good, is not waiting to help and heal. To illustrate my point I should like to relate an experience in the hope it may help a fellow student along the way.
Between the years 1933 and 1938 I extended credit beyond my own financial capacity and was forced to close my place of business. In 1940 I wrote all my creditors stating that I was reopening my business and that I was planning to pay all accounts in full, plus interest. Some answered and others did not. Then I went to the bank and asked for a loan with which to finance the fixtures needed in the operation of my new venture. The banker's first impression was that I should file a petition for bankruptcy, that I could not possibly operate a new business and pay up past indebtedness. I could not recall reading in any of Mrs. Eddy's writings that a man should go through failure to reach prosperity and success. When the banker saw I was not to be persuaded to file for bankruptcy, he negotiated the loan. In about two years the bank and all creditors were paid in full.
