Testimony of Healing October 22, 1932 Issue

Christian Science was recommended to my wife some...

Stanley Warwick

Christian Science was recommended to my wife some nineteen years ago by a neighbor who suggested that it might help us with our first baby, then a few months old, who was a source of great anxiety to us both. We began to benefit immediately as we applied what we learned from our reading of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and the child manifested a greater degree of harmony as our fears for him were removed. During this first reading both my wife and I were healed of defective eyesight and laid aside eyeglasses which had been worn for many years and which were considered indispensable. We now have better sight than we had in early youth. We began to attend a branch church regularly, and were admitted together as members in due course.

Towards the end of 1919 I left England to take up residence on the west coast of South America, where my wife and two sons joined me early the following year. Despite the changed climatic and other conditions, our understanding of Christian Science was sufficient to maintain us all in good health during ten years' residence there. Our two boys returned to England in 1923, when they were able to attend a Christian Science Sunday School, and great has been our joy on many occasions when we have learned that they have been able to help themselves with their own understanding of the truth.

We have had many experiences of healing in our family circle of four, and also the valuable experience of continuous protection during tropical so-called epidemics of malaria, plagues, fevers, and other conditions which caused at times great havoc among our friends. One experience of protection will always stand out very vividly in my recollections. In March, 1930, whilst on the west coast, I had to make a long journey by aeroplane. After traveling about two hundred and fifty miles, whilst at a height of about two thousand feet, we heard a succession of explosions in the motor. We were then passing over a cotton plantation and the pilot looked round for a good landing place, whilst the plane was making a spiral descent. Owing to the rainless climate of that portion of the coast, sugar and cotton estates are irrigated by means of canals fed from the occasional rivers flowing from the Andes. Cotton plants are therefore cultivated along deep furrows of varying widths to facilitate the passage of water for irrigating purposes. Owing to the density of the foliage due to the state of growth, the furrows could not be distinguished from above, and it later transpired that the pilot did not know of them, but our landing was accomplished in line with two furrows, and the plants served to bring the plane to a safe stop rapidly, without other damage than to a few cotton plants. The medical officer of the estate was amongst the first to arrive, and I shall not soon forget his visible astonishment at seeing the pilot, one other passenger, and me calmly discussing plans for the extrication of the plane. After the plane had been repaired we were able to resume our journey some hours later, and as we rose for the next stage of the trip I was very conscious of a well of gratitude for this proof of the omnipresence of divine Love and the meeting of that particular need. As the journey had commenced very early in the morning, I had not read the Lesson-Sermon before leaving, but as we rose for the first stage of the journey I was able to affirm mentally the right motives for the trip and that this means of transport was as legitimate as any other. I value the experience because it showed that an habitual attitude of recognizing the government of divine Mind and the Science work I had done earlier in the day were sufficient to insure protection, as during the descent I was intent in watching the development of events and had no fear. It was only later, from the comments of the pilot, our fellow passenger, and eyewitnesses, that I realized how great the general sense of fear and danger had been. Just prior to this forced landing we had passed over some foothills of the Andes coastal range, where a landing place would have been difficult to find.

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