Testimony of Healing July 6, 1957 Issue

I wish to express my gratitude...

James B. Crafton

I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science and for the many blessings that have come to me through its study and application. It was my privilege to be reared in a home where this Science was the only physician for all ills. At an early age I was placed in Sunday School, and I was a regular pupil in every place in which we lived where a Christian Science Sunday School was held, until I was taken into the armed services during World War II. For this early training, I have never ceased to be grateful.

Christian Science has sustained me through many trying experiences, including so-called childhood diseases, a sense of lack, an inharmonious home experience, and a broken bone. I joyfully and very actively participated in sports throughout my public school and college experience. Every injury was healed through the application of Christian Science.

While overseas in World War II as a member of an infantry company I was exposed to all the rigors of combat. I experienced a healing of fear through reading an article clipped from a copy of The Christian Science Monitor which had been sent to me by my mother. Included in the article were these words of Mary Baker Eddy's from "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (pp. 149, 150): "Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee." Such a sense of the ever-presence of God pervaded my thinking that I was able to go about my duties unafraid. I later received a direct, or battlefield, commission as the result of the performance of my duties under fire.

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