Testimony of Healing April 9, 1938 Issue

This expression of gratitude is offered with the accompanying...

Walter Berry with contributions from Lily Berry

This expression of gratitude is offered with the accompanying hope that it will reach someone who thinks, as I once thought, that he has finished with religion forever.

Formerly a member of a so-called orthodox church, I finally withdrew from it, dissatisfied and disappointed. I found it impossible to believe in or conceive of a God who was alternately kind and unkind, loving and revengeful. So for this and other reasons I severed my connection with every kind of religious activity, believing that thereby my peace of mind would be more secure.

During this transitional period, and for many succeeding years, a large part of my professional work was carried on in church edifices; and many and futile were the discussions on religious subjects which I engaged in with pastors of various churches. Many of these men were living exemplary Christian lives, as far as their understanding permitted, but a majority, if not all of them, believed that God was responsible for disaster and discord. So my search for a more humane and consistent God was, for the time being, unsuccessful.

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