Testimony of Healing May 15, 1948 Issue

As one among a host of people...

Nellie Woo

As one among a host of people sustained by Christian Science while undergoing hardships due to the exigencies of war, I should like to add my testimony.

Because of my Japanese ancestry I was confronted with evacuation orders to go and live among people whose ways of living and thinking were entirely alien to mine. My two little girls and I faced a complete separation from church, friends, supply, home, family, all the dear, familiar pattern of living, to endure the rigors of banishment and life in a desert place.

"For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways" (Ps. 91:11). As soon as we were settled, I made known my plight to the Christian Science Committee on Publication for the State of Idaho, and I received immediate gratifying response. I wish to express my gratitude to all the Christian Scientists who befriended me during those two years of exile. Although identifying myself as a Christian Scientist set me apart from the evacuees, it enabled me to enjoy privileges denied to others. For me the gates were opened wide, and one Sunday I was allowed to attend the church in Jerome to hear the reading of the Lesson-Sermon on Sacrament from the Christian Science Quarterly. Another time I was free to go out after dark to listen to a Christian Science lecture given in Twin Falls. In spite of the wartime shortages and our camp being in the midst of a desert, transportation was provided by the wife of a Caucasian on the Administrative Staff. She had had class instruction in Christian Science. We enjoyed a beautiful friendship, mutually inspiring and sustaining each other.

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