While on military duty during World War II, in the middle of a campaign, I saw that the Bible's words to forget "those things which are behind" carried with them the spiritual demand to go forward.
The previous evening I had visited a field hospital to pray with a wounded Christian Scientist and bring him encouragement. Later during the night I was able to study Paul's words from Philippians. As I recognized the deep significance of forgetting, all feeling that I bore a load of personal responsibility dropped away, and I knew that the soldier was already healed—which, in fact, he was. I understood Paul's directive to put the illusions of the past behind.
The next morning our unit moved on to another area. During the same day, I wrote to a teacher of Christian Science in the United States, asking to take class instruction when (not if) I returned home. Such was the impact that seeing this healing had on me.
