How Christian Science Heals August 20, 1960 Issue

[The above is substantially the text of the program released for broadcast the weekend of August 12–14 in the radio series, "How Christian Science Heals," heard internationally over approximately 700 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. 361 - Overcoming a Sense of Insecurity

Madeline Ver Planck

SPEAKER: Many people today are dogged by a feeling of personal insecurity, and sometimes they feel the remedy lies in exploring the ramifications of the human mind. But the remedy lies much deeper. When you really get down to fundamentals, insecurity stems from a deep spiritual need. It involves a basic uncertainty as to one's own real value, purpose, identity; it involves fear, and the way to correct all this lies in the gaining of a proper sense of God and of man's relationship to Him, as our program is going to show. I think you'll find our guest's experience a helpful illustration of this. Let me introduce Mrs. Madeline Ver Planck, of East Lansing, Michigan.

MRS. VER PLANCK: For a long time I was troubled with some of those questions you mentioned. But it wasn't until I faced a crisis in my life that I found the answers and gained a sense of peace and security.

I'd been going downhill for some time and finally had an operation for an organic trouble. But I wasn't any better, and I was even more depressed and unhappy than before. Also there was a severe nervous disorder and a blood condition —pernicious anemia. I was having injections three times a week for this condition and was told I'd always have to have them. I was on a strict diet. But all the treatment I was having was not really helping me, because of my mental state; it wasn't touching that.

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