Christian Science came into our home when I was a young boy, and I am very grateful for the years I spent in the Christian Science Sunday School, during which time the seed of Truth was sown. It has since become apparent that this seed, once sown, can never be permanently uprooted, although it may seem to be obscured temporarily by overgrowths of false beliefs, accepted as real for a time, but inevitably destroyed by one's turning to Truth and spiritualizing thought.
I had many proofs of God's provision of good for His children in the way of health and supply during my high school and early college years. However, by accepting in consciousness the false claims of popularity, material attractions, and neglect of spiritual values, I let my study of Christian Science lapse.
After a few years, when serving overseas in the Navy during World War II, I found myself the victim of an accident, in which one leg was crushed between a large landing craft and a dock piling. The Navy doctors who examined me and set the leg expressed the thought that, assuming amputation did not prove necessary, there would in all probability be only a few degrees of flexibility with partial paralysis of the toes, a possible shortening of the limb, and most certainly a medical discharge from the Navy.
