HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS July 30, 1955 Issue

[Following is the text of the program of the above title released for broadcast the week end of July 22–24 in the radio series, "How Christian Science Heals," heard internationally over more than 800 stations This one of the weekly programs produced by the Christian Science Committee on Publication, 107 Falmouth Street, Boston 15, Massachusetts]

RADIO PROGRAM No. 97 - Strength Available Right Where You Are

Charles Hopgood

On this program Charles Hopgood of St. John, New Brunswick, told of his own experience, as follows:

It was at the close of World War II. I was a theological student at a Canadian university at the time, but I couldn't accept the concept of God I was being taught and was going to have to teach others. In addition, I was suffering from a physical condition of great weakness. I talked over my problem with the young lady I was going with at the time. She happened to be a Christian Scientist, and she suggested I try Christian Science. In it I found such a new and satisfying idea of God that I started to study and apply its teachings.

During the war I had been turned down by all the Canadian armed services because I was in such poor shape, being extremely thin, weak, and generally lacking vitality. From my earliest childhood I had spent a good deal of my time in bed, or under a doctor's care, never able to do strenuous things, and always trying to gain strength in some way. All this was supposed to be due to my height— at 14 I was over six foot and I kept growing. But as I studied Christian Science I began to get a different idea of strength as something that comes from God. I left school and moved to the United States and was drafted into the Army. To my surprise I was classified as A-l, physically fit in every way. Then I realized that I had been healed of this problem of weakness. While in the Army, I had an opportunity to see what a complete physical change had occurred.

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