In gratitude for divine help in my hours of need I submit this testimony, hoping that it will strengthen another's faith in God. Christian Science has been my help for over forty-five years, and it has proved to me that regardless of whether a problem is small or great, man's dominion over it can be demonstrated.
One instance in proof of this truth was my gaining a victory over fear. During the First World War there was a strike by the telephone employees in the community where I lived. The city mayor and the county sheriff were engaged in a lawsuit, and the mayor had forbidden the sheriff and his forces to give any attention to affairs in the city. I volunteered as a special deputy sheriff and was given the duty of guarding telephone lines in the city.
I was filled with fear; so I enlisted the help of a Christian Science practitioner, who helped me to realize that God is the cause of all that really exists. All fear vanished immediately. Mary Baker Eddy tells us in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 385), "Whatever it is your duty to do, you can do without harm to yourself." I was certain that I was doing my duty and that therefore no harm could possibly come to me. After two weeks I was transferred and stationed in care of lines in a wooded district. Again I had no fear. In another two weeks the strike was settled, and the lawsuit closed in peace.
