Testimony of Healing March 17, 1962 Issue

"Hast thou a friend, and forgettest...

Phillip Warren Kupper

"Hast thou a friend, and forgettest to be grateful?" This question posed by Mrs. Eddy (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 339) has prompted me to share some of the good I have derived from Christian Science.

While living in another city a few years ago, although in a home with people who loved me, I felt that I was alone and lonely. Constant questioning of everything and everyone in my experience led to indecision, frustration, and guilt. "Why," I would ask, for example, "is the world in such obvious distress?" I had few friends, and I was hypercritical of my work. As a result, my mentality was in an endless turmoil. I was at war, and I found no peace and no haven from it.

As a youngster I had been enrolled in a Christian Science Sunday School. However, my attendance lapsed, and for several years I did not attend church services of any kind. But there came a time when I needed help; so I turned to the Bible and to the Christian Science textbook by Mrs. Eddy, for the answer to my immediate need for physical healing. When I was temporarily relieved, I would close my books and be about my business, which I then thought was to go to work each day, perhaps meet someone for lunch, take in some amusement, keep my clothes in order, sleep, and arise the following morning and begin this cycle again.

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