Although I was brought up in Christian Science, I allowed a sense of ingratitude to come into my thinking, and as a result I seldom studied Science of my own volition. When I left home to attend school, I thought I was too busy to give any time to God, and I allowed my thought to become deeply engrossed in materiality while studying engineering.
After I had gone into business and applied only mortal mind thinking to my work, I became fearful and so confused that my mental faculties apparently were not functioning. When this error seemed evident in the business, I was given a choice of leaving the company or returning to a former position within the company. I chose the latter, believing that my failure was caused by certain conditions in that particular location and the thinking of the people around me. However, upon my return to the former position, the condition was worse.
It was then that I realized the necessity for my turning wholeheartedly to the Christianly scientific religion in which I had been brought up; and therefore I asked a Christian Science practitioner for help. I saw from the practitioner's explanation of Genesis 1:26, 27 that man is created in God's likeness and has dominion over all error by divine heritage. I resolved to claim my true selfhood as a child of God. The enlightenment which followed this resolve dissolved my erroneous mortal thinking about man and paved the way for the complete healing which followed. Also, the desire for smoking and social drinking entirely left me, and a condition of running ears, which three physicians had treated without permanent success, was healed.
