Testimony of Healing February 7, 1948 Issue

Having been released from active...

Marius N. Perrin

Having been released from active duty in the United States Navy, after three years of war service, I should like the privilege of expressing my gratitude for Christian Science.

In my youth I had the opportunity to attend the Christian Science Sunday School. This groundwork and the daily help of a practitioner brought deliverance from the many trials of war. On page 238 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy says, "To fall away from Truth in times of persecution, shows that we never understood Truth." Most of my service was overseas where I did not meet any Christian Scientists, so I had either "to fall away from" or rise in Truth.

In the early part of the war our Naval beach battalion was sent to North Africa to train in the assault phases of beach operations. There was much material evidence to be seen as unreal, because it was not of God, such as the rigors of intensive training, limited rations, forced marches, maneuvers at night, landing on barren shores from invasion craft, the hot, dry climate, diseases, and abundance of insects, the many cases of malaria, diarrhea, and physical exhaustion, and enemy plane attacks. These evils were seen for the mirages that they were and disappeared into their native nothingness. Daily study and application of the lessons from the Christian Science Quarterly helped to overcome my belief in the reality of these problems.

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