Testimony of Healing December 15, 1945 Issue

At the outbreak of the recent...

Alexander R. Slimmon

At the outbreak of the recent conflict with the Japanese I was on duty in the United States Navy Yard at Cavite, Philippine Islands, I served throughout the Philippine defense campaign and was led safely from that theater of war to our forces in Australia. This deliverance was the culmination of so many proofs of God's care that they cannot be told here in detail.

Briefly, I was included in a small party sent away from Corregidor on a certain mission shortly before the fall of that fortress in 1942. When I arrived at my new station it was possible to cable my teacher for help in recovering from the effects of malaria and of diarrhea contracted on Bataan. The results were immediate, and the healing has been permanent. Although a long convalescence had been predicted, I was restored to health and full vigor, and was assigned to duty in about ten days after asking for treatment.

When the enemy overran this new station, I was directed to evacuate my command and myself. Just before this occurred I sensed that some change was in the making. I therefore cabled my teacher once more, making the simple request that work for guidance be done once a week until I was heard from again. With four companions I made my way from this place, a point well inside the Philippine Archipelago, to a group of islands lying southwest of New Guinea, in all about fifteen hundred miles, through enemy-infested waters.

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