Testimony of Healing July 17, 1954 Issue

My father used to take our family...

Christopher N. G. Orton

My father used to take our family over thirty miles each Sunday to and from a Church of Christ, Scientist, enabling my younger brother and me to attend a Christian Science Sunday School, where we received great benefit from the clear and loving teaching given us.

Later, when I had been declared unfit for sea duty as a result of having had malaria, I was completely healed through the faithful work of a Christian Science practitioner. I took up a strenuous life once again, joined the Royal Navy in World War II, undertook hazardous service, and in fact lived the adventurous sort of life that I had always wanted to live as a boy.

During the war many instances of remarkable protection were experienced. On one occasion when I was undergoing training as a parachutist, the following words from the Bible came to me before leaving the plane for my first practice jump (Deut. 33:27): "Underneath are the everlasting arms." I took no notice of this angel message at the time, but a little later it returned to my thought. Still I remained unmoved. Once again it repeated itself most insistently to me. Only then did I acknowledge the message and receive it gratefully.

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