It is high time that I bore witness to all the help I have received from the study of Christian Science. I have been studying it since the First World War, during which, although I did not realize it, I was being protected by God through the prayerful thoughts of a relation who was a Scientist. Since then I have been in many and varied climates in different parts of the world; and, through my small amount of understanding of Science, I have been protected from epidemics and have been healed of many difficulties, including jaundice, a rib injury, synovitis of the knee, a broken foot, and a broken nose. The bones were set by spiritual means alone.
When I was an acting staff officer in India before the Second World War, I was responsible for all the written orders for the movement of the troops while we were on maneuvers and for the selection of the camp sites which they were to occupy. Another officer and I were reconnoitering one of these camp sites together; and instead of getting on with the job in hand, I was worrying about an order I should have to write about three days hence to get the troops out of a special type of camp.
I was not getting on with what I ought to have been doing because of worrying about the order. Suddenly to my thought came this message: "Get on with what you are doing now. I will tell you what to write when the time comes." I was so startled I did try hard to be obedient and get on with the job in hand, and we finished the reconnaissance satisfactorily.
