Christian Science Has been such a blessing to me for over sixty years that I cannot delay any longer recording a few of the many healings I have experienced.
I am immensely grateful that I was enrolled in the Christian Science Sunday School at the age of nine years. At that time my father had been healed, with treatment from a Christian Science practitioner, of a very serious illness. This was after the medical profession had stated that nothing further could be done and that he could not expect to live longer than eighteen months. Depending on Christian Science for his health, he then lived into his ninetieth year.
During World War II, I was able to utilise the teachings I had received in the Sunday School on several occasions. One of these took place when I was on an arduous military training course in the Scottish mountains. During our first abseiling exercise (without modern tackle), I was unexpectedly overcome with a paralysing fear of falling the hundreds of feet to the bottom of the valley, and I was unable to move any farther. Fortunately, an additional (or safety) rope allowed me to be hauled up to the ledge from which we had started our descent. The officer in charge told me to spend a few minutes on my own, and when my confidence had returned, to come back for another attempt. What a kind and surprising gesture! It gave me the opportunity to pray and think quietly about the everpresence of our Father-Mother God, divine Love, who never forsakes us nor permits us to be afraid of falling. On returning to the group, I was told that we were going straightway to a more dangerous descent, where, to make it more "interesting," we would not be provided with the extra safety rope or any other assistance. My fear had been completely conquered, however, and I completed this difficult assignment without mishap, in the best time recorded, and was commended.
