Testimony of Healing October 26, 1918 Issue

I feel it would not be right for me to withhold any longer...

Patrick W. Campbell

I feel it would not be right for me to withhold any longer a written testimony of the great help Christian Science has been to me since I have been in France. My difficulty is to know just where to begin. I would say, though, that when I came out (now twenty-one months ago) it was with the resolve to put Christian Science to the test, and it has enabled me to experience divine protection all the way, through the better understanding of God which I have gained. On arriving with my draft I was selected for clerical work and attached to headquarters of my battalion, a vacancy having occurred in consequence of one of the staff going to hospital the day previous, and in this capacity I have served ever since. I go with my battalion into the line, and although the roads and tracks over which we march into the trenches are frequently shelled, and shells have burst very close to me, I have never been touched. On two occasions the entrance to our headquarters was blown in, the second time less than five minutes after I had come out from the exact spot.

One instance of protection occurs to me for special mention. Early in March we went up to relieve another battalion, and were well on the road when shells began to fall. Some seemed to fail to explode and we thought they were "duds" but soon discovered they were gas shells. It became so bad that we were ordered to return, but after a while we made another attempt, although there was no relaxation of the shelling. We got into what seemed to be the very center of it, just at some crossroads, when a wrong route was taken and a halt had to be called. All this time shells of all kinds were bursting around and over us, but only one man was wounded. We got right through the gas and to our position. During the next few days almost the whole of my company were affected in some degree by the gas, suffering from either temporary blindness or throat trouble. I passed through the same amount of gas as they and inhaled it but was not troubled in the least, although it was continually suggested to me by the others that the bad effects would come. A verse of one of our hymns came to me while I was passing through the gas and it was a great help to realize the truth it contained. It is found on page 84 of our Hymnal and reads:—

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