HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS October 2, 1954 Issue

[Following is the text of the program of the above title released for broadcast the week end of September 24-26 in the radio series, "How Christian Science Heals," heard internationally over about 600 stations. This is one of the weekly programs produced by the Christian Science Committee on Publication, 107 Falmouth Street, Boston 15, Massachusetts.]

RADIO PROGRAM No. 54 - Freedom Through Right Decisions

Forrest J. Struble

On this program Forrest J. Struble of Chicago, Illinois, told of his own experience, as follows:

According to a medical diagnosis several years ago, I was suffering from a number of ailments which included a nervous breakdown; a back injury for which I needed to wear a steel-stayed corset and which injury was said to be permanent; also foot trouble which I was said to have been born with. I was offered relief from this trouble, but no cure. I wore supports outside as well as inside my shoes. However, the most difficult of all these ailments was an incurable rheumatism which at times confined me to bed for a period of, oh, from days to weeks. All these afflictions troubled me at the same time, and they all added up to semi-invalidism. At that particular time I was confined to bed with an attack of rheumatism and was taking much medicine and a number of shots every week. It was at this mental and physical ebb tide in my life that Christian Science came to me through my sister. A Christian Science practitioner was called, and he briefly explained what Christian Science could do for me and pointed out that when I was perfectly willing to rely entirely on God for healing, then I would have made an important decision in the right direction. That decision was not difficult to make. From that day on I had no more medical help whatsoever.

About a year later, one day I became suddenly conscious that I was entirely healed. I don't know when that healing occurred, but in that moment I realized that not once since having turned to God unreservedly through Christian Science had I been afflicted with any of these rheumatic attacks. I was completely free. I realized also in that moment that my back was entirely well, that I was not wearing the corset any longer, and as a matter of fact never needed it any more, never wore it again. As for my feet, they were in such fine condition that I didn't even think about them. I served in the armed forces in World War II for almost three years and in a special branch of the service which required an unusually stiff medical examination. These examinations showed no signs whatsoever of any former afflictions, but rather showed a state of most excellent health.

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