Testimony of Healing August 28, 1989 Issue

As a child and young adult, I couldn't have imagined that "the...

Howard H. Lamb

As a child and young adult, I couldn't have imagined that "the thing which I greatly feared" (Job 3:25) would lead to my learning of God's existence and His eternal presence.

A warning to me from my loving mother when I was about six years old was probably the beginning of the fear. She advised me to do whatever I could to avoid the dangers and horrors of military combat, should our nation become involved in some future war.

A few years later, at the beginning of the China-Japan War, I experienced my first war-related shock. Stories of the Japanese invasion of China filled the news. For some time afterward I occasionally woke from nightmares involving fleets of the enemy's planes flying over Portland's western hills on their approach to attack the city. Just the sound of an airplane engine at any time or place would completely distract me, causing me to shudder with fear.

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