For many years I lived and worked in Central Africa, often in remote areas, and during that time I became increasingly aware of the practicality of Christian Science as a religion and the way of Life.
Without the support of the Bible, Mrs. Eddy's works, and the weekly Lesson-Sermon, contained in the Quarterly, my family and I would have found the many problems of health and human relationships confronting us during that period almost overwhelming. When we were ourselves unable to solve problems, we had the immediate help of practitioners, who lived usually many hundreds or even thousands of miles away and with whom we communicated by letter or by cable.
A healing which I received as a young man impressed me deeply. I was then a keen athlete. At a particular athletic sports meeting one day I had won one middle-distance race and was coming up toward the last hundred yards in a second race in order to try and overtake the two competitors in front of me, when suddenly I pulled an Achilles tendon. Medical people on the spot informed me that I would be out of competitive athletics for a month or two.
