Testimony of Healing May 31, 1947 Issue

The definition of "fear" given...

Earl Hesse with contributions from Helen Virginia Hesse

The definition of "fear" given by Mary Baker Eddy in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 586) reads: "Fear. Heat; inflammation; anxiety; ignorance; error; desire; caution." This definition helped me to see the unreality of the danger about me while I was in the Navy overseas.

The ship I was on took part in the invasion of Okinawa, and Japan, and we had many proofs of God's protection. While we were unloading our supplies at Okinawa a group of Jap suicide planes attacked our part of the fleet. There was one that picked us out for a target and dived down on us. Every man in the repair party I was in looked at me, as I was manning the battle phones, and a still, small voice whispered, "God is Life and cannot be destroyed." The plane was brought down by our gunners, which many called a miracle, but to me it was another proof of the omnipotence of God.

Another time while in a typhoon out at sea we were given up as lost. I recalled a few lines from one of Mrs. Eddy's poems, where she says (Poems) p.12:

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