Testimony of Healing December 29, 1945 Issue

In the hope that it may bring...

A. Arthur Laird

In the hope that it may bring some comfort to those who have loved ones away in the armed forces I want to tell how I was protected by the application of Christian Science. At the time I went into the Army I had just started to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, not because I needed any physical healing, but because I realized that if it was the truth I wanted to understand it. I read a little every day, taking some months to read it through. Still I was not sure that it was the truth. I spent some time in the action zone in the South Pacific, and at one time a small ship I was on was caught alone by an enemy warship and riddled with shells. I kept in my thoughts the fact that man is spiritual, and I was not hurt.

Later on I was sent home and discharged because of a nervous condition. This process of being sent home was carried out so quickly and with such a minimum of the usual red tape that I felt that God was guiding my steps homeward for some good reason. On the ship coming back I felt a sense of the peace "which passeth all understanding," and I thought I was healed, but this lasted only a few days: then I was as nervous as ever. When I arrived home I found that some relatives for whom I had previously worked, and who were Christian Scientists, were in need of help because their son was going into the Army soon. They said I must have been sent back to meet their need. I called a practitioner to help me with my own problem. Although there seemed to be no improvement for some time, as soon as the needed lesson was learned my healing came suddenly and I was able to go to work.

I am very grateful for the unselfish work of our loving practitioners, for the privilege of membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, and for the fact that I am learning through Christian Science that God's help is instantly available.—A. Arthur Laird, Kansas City, Kansas.

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