Testimony of Healing November 8, 1913 Issue

I am a traveling auditor for a railroad company, and as...

John J. Hesler

I am a traveling auditor for a railroad company, and as such am obliged to be away from home and among strangers much of the time. Intoxicants and tobacco, which formerly found room in my grip, have for many years been displaced by the Bible, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and the Christian Science literature. When The Christian Science Monitor was first issued, I was puzzled to know how to get the good out of it, but hit upon the following plan. Every Monday morning, on leaving home for the week, I take with me the last six numbers of the Monitor. I am always called at six o'clock, and before leaving my room I read over the Lesson-Sermon; then I take a copy of the Monitor to the dining-room, and while waiting for and eating my breakfast read the Christian Science article, and others if I have time. When starting for my work I leave the paper on the hotel reading-room table. In this way I know that many are seeing the Monitor for the first time. The Sentinel and Journal are also regular traveling companions.

When I left a hotel in Tennessee, where I had spent some months, the proprietor, in saying good-by, made the remark: "I sure am sorry to see you go; if every guest of this hotel gave me as little trouble as you do, hotel-keeping would be a pleasure." I was once greatly given to finding fault with hotel service, thinking this was necessary, but I received a valuable lesson in that respect from a Christian Science lecturer who came to our town. On talking with him about the hotel and making excuses for the unsatisfactory service I assumed he had received, I was surprised when he replied that the service was quite satisfactory and that he did not find hotel life a hardship. Ever since this gentle rebuke—now almost two years ago—hotel experiences in small towns have been pleasanter and the service more satisfactory. I find that the reading of the Lesson-Sermon is most helpful, as I am thus enabled to overcome hate with love, fear with trust, discord with harmony, error with Truth.

John J. Hesler, Carbondale, Ill.

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