I am grateful to have learned that into my human experience can enter only two kinds of situations: harmonious ones, over which to rejoice, and inharmonious ones, which impel me to gain a closer acquaintance with God. In the eleven years in which it has been my joy to apply the teachings of Christian Science, I have had many causes for rejoicing.
While I was at a university false charges of a grave nature were made against me. Through the prayerful work of a practitioner I was able to disprove the accusations; my innocence was completely established, and the accusers offered an apology. However, I continued to brood over the injustice I had suffered, with the result that I could not sleep until the early morning hours; then I would have a nightmare about the affair. This continued for about a year, until I reached a state of extreme depression and distrust of others, making it impossible for me to hold a job or to be civil to my family.
I was led to ask for work at the Sanatorium of the Christian Science Benevolent Association on Pacific Coast and was accepted for employment. At the first song service I attended after arriving there we sang Hymn No. 412 in the Christian Science Hymnal, and these lines seemed illumined:
