Testimony of Healing May 5, 1945 Issue

One of our sons is a bombardier,...

Alice McCray Merriell

One of our sons is a bombardier, and he was in the crew of a Liberator based in southern Italy. On May 25, 1944, we were notified that he had been "missing in action" since May 6. Even as I read the message I exercised my right and ability, as the individual reflection of the all-powerful, infinite God, to realize that man coexists with God, who is ever present. Therefore I could scientifically refuse to admit the possibility that this boy could be missing.

A few days earlier, I had said to a friend, "No one can be missing while God knows where he is; and God always does know, for man can never be separated from Him." I saw that I now had an opportunity to prove this by learning a little better to know my son as God forever knows him—as the perfect expression of the divine Principle, Love, complete and unalterable in God's image and likeness.

The argument came that, although this was true in the absolute, he might still have gone through the human belief of death. That was annulled by the realization that Jesus proved man's perfection in terms which his followers could understand, even to raising the dead; and by the perception that God is able to reveal His presence and power in ways that we can see and understand, never requiring us to go through sorrow and suffering to obtain salvation. Jesus said to Thomas (John 20:29), "Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."

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