Testimony of Healing March 14, 1953 Issue

I am very grateful for Christian Science...

Richard A. Sunderland with contributions from E. Ruth Sunderland

I am very grateful for Christian Science. I have known of it for about sixty years. During my first year in grade school my mother was healed in one treatment of quick consumption after specialists had told my father that there was nothing more the medical profession could do for her. This was my first contact with Christian Science. Our family then moved to the Middle West, where at that time Christian Science was not very well known.

In 1917, when World War I began, I joined the Army Air Force. Before I was sent overseas a friend asked me to go to church with him. To my surprise and pleasure he took me to a Christian Science service. There I met a Christian Science Camp Welfare Worker, who supplied me with a copy of the Vest Pocket Edition of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, which I still possess. I received much benefit from this textbook and from talks with this and other Workers.

When World War II started I remembered the good I had received through Christian Science in the First World War, and I accepted the position as a Christian Science Wartime Minister. Although this position paid only half the salary I had been receiving, it paid me several times over in blessings and opportunities to help the boys and girls in the service, either in beginning the study of Christian Science or in continuing with what they had gained in Sunday School. Our home was open to them twenty-four hours a day, and these young people made it their home. One of the outstanding pleasures of my work was to have them around.

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