Testimony of Healing August 11, 1956 Issue

Mrs. Eddy writes in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany"...

Georgia Doris Hilton with contributions from Hart Dale Hilton

Mrs. Eddy writes in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 164), "What is gratitude but a powerful camera obscura, a thing focusing light where love, memory, and all within the human heart is present to manifest light."

Christian Science, in which I was brought up, has blessed me always, but I am especially grateful for its sustaining, protective power during World War II. My husband, a naval officer, was sent to the Pacific area a few months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Shortly after hostilities commenced, his plane was shot down, and he was made a prisoner of war in Japan. I did not see him for over four years.

It was a time for proving many of the truths I had often declared and for much purification of thought. The ninety-first, twenty-third, and one hundred and twenty-first Psalms were my daily companions. Mrs. Eddy's letter on pages 150 and 151 of "Miscellaneous Writings," beginning, "Space is no separator of hearts," was prayerfully studied many times.

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