HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS February 18, 1956 Issue

[Following is the text of the program of the above title released for broadcast the week end of February 10-12 in the radio series, "How Christian Science Heals," heard internationally over more than 800 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. 126 - The Spiritual Education of Children

Joseph A. Crum

On this program Joseph A. Crum of Staunton, Virginia, told of his own experience. The program was as follows:

Speaker: Wouldn't it be a wonderful blessing to everyone—to children, to society, and to those of us who are parents—if the anxieties and uncertainties about the welfare of children could be eliminated! There certainly are no easy solutions to the problem. But it is now being more generally recognized that early spiritual training is a most important step toward this goal. Our guest today—Mr. Joseph A. Crum of Staunton, Virginia—had an experience as a child that illustrates this point. Here he is to tell us about it.

Mr. Crum: When I was just a boy I went to live with my aunt and uncle. They were most kind and loving people, and my aunt helped me continue the study of Christian Science, which I had begun at home. Early in my last year of grade school I returned from my paper route one evening quite evidently ill. I couldn't go to school the next day; in fact, I couldn't even get out of bed. There were no Christian Scientists in the town, and at my request my aunt and uncle called a Christian Science practitioner, who had been a good friend to me for several years. She came to see me, traveling the distance on an electric car and walking another mile after reaching our town. Following this visit, she began to pray for me systematically, according to the teachings of Christian Science. But at first I got no better; in fact, things got worse.

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