Testimony of Healing December 26, 1953 Issue

Christian Science came into my...

Robert Ivan Voelker

Christian Science came into my life thirty-four years ago, when I was a very young child. Five physicians had told my mother that I was suffering from double pneumonia and could not live until the next morning. Upon hearing of this, a good neighbor asked my mother if she would try Christian Science. My mother did not know anything about this religion, but she was willing to try it. The neighbor said she would do prayerful work for me; then she told my mother to get her coat and hat and take a nice long walk, leaving everything in God's hands. Upon my mother's return some time later, she found me well and playing on the floor. Following this healing she took up the study of Christian Science.

During the Second World War, I served on a PT boat in the South Pacific. Each day I did prayerful work, using the ninety-first Psalm and the words of Mary Baker Eddy, in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 571), "Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you." One morning on returning to our base from an all-night patrol, our boat and another were attacked by more than thirty enemy aircraft. They dropped over forty bombs from a low altitude and strafed us for forty minutes. The words of the ninety-first Psalm came to me, and I knew that we were safe in the everlasting arms of divine Love. Our boat was not touched, nor was a man on it hurt. We fought in many battles during the New Guinea campaign, but not once were we ever hit.

Christian Science has solved many problems for me, including those of lack and of grief over the loss of dear ones, and it has healed me of many physical difficulties, I am profoundly grateful to Mrs. Eddy for giving us this wonderful religion, for the opportunity of serving as a volunteer Wartime Worker overseas, for service in a branch church, and for class instruction from a consecrated teacher. Christian Science is indeed the Comforter, a religion based on Love.—Robert Ivan Voelker, Arcadia, California.

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