I feel deep gratitude for Christian Science. Its blessings have been available to me all my life. My mother was a faithful pioneer worker in the early days of the movement. Today my wife and I are happy to have grandchildren in the Sunday School of a branch church—fourth generation Christian Scientists!
Many and varied have been the challenges we have met, but we can say with the Psalm (46:1) that God has been "a very present help in trouble." The greatest trials have been periods of the most pronounced spiritual progress, for they have inevitably called forth deeper and more penetrating prayer in order to discern the truth.
One experience having a particular relevance at this time occurred during the economic depression of the early thirties. I was an officer of a company in a large city engaged in the processing of a building material. We were having difficulties not only because of the serious shortage of construction work at that time but also because of the encroachment on our local market of material fabricated out of town, at the source of raw materials where substantially lower wages prevailed.
