I should like to express gratitude for the healings, guidance, and protection which have come to me through the study of Christian Science. Nearly twenty years ago, as a Mother's Day gift, I agreed to go one Sunday to the Christian Science Sunday School because my mother wanted that more than any gift I could give her. So I went, little dreaming what a profound change that "gift" was to make in my life. Instead of going only one Sunday, as I had planned, I started attending regularly, and within a year I discovered that I had been healed of hernia and malaria. The desire for wrongdoing changed, and I found myself taking an interest in my schoolwork. I obtained a scholarship which paid half my tuition at a university, but because of the depression I was able to pay only five dollars toward my expenses. I saw no means of obtaining more money, but felt that if it was right it would work out. When the five dollars was exhausted, and all efforts to obtain work failed, I was led into a new channel of thinking, and shortly thereafter work presented itself from an untried source, and I was able to complete my course and graduate.
When war broke out, I tried to join the aviation cadets, but was refused because of an ailment, long since healed, which I had had before I knew of Christian Science. Work was taken up to overcome my feeling of injustice that I should be condemned because of a childhood difficulty, when we in Christian Science know that the past cannot harm us when it is forsaken. Shortly after I was drafted, I was notified to report for a re-examination and I passed the tests. Interestingly, at this time and at all subsequent periodic tests the question relative to this ailment was never asked me, although it was on the printed form and other men taking the test were asked that question.
From April, 1942, until I received my discharge in late 1945, I served as an Army pilot and had many proofs of the practicability of Christian Science. Some of these I should like to mention.
