Testimony of Healing January 1, 1990 Issue

At the age of ten I began to stutter

Charles H. Wenne

At the age of ten I began to stutter. I was very embarrassed when I heard myself stuttering in conversation or in school, so I attempted to speak only when necessary. This caused me to avoid contact with people, though I enjoyed association with others.

I could speak more freely at home with my immediate family or with a few close friends, so my parents did not realize that the impediment was a serious difficulty. I never mentioned the trouble to anyone, and people seldom mentioned it to me.

School became very difficult. I dropped from getting perfect grades in elementary school to barely attaining the minimum grade-point average required for graduation from high school. I wanted to drop out, but my parents insisted I continue. When I commenced working in an office at age seventeen, I did stop going to Sunday School in order to avoid reading aloud. (I had been attending a Christian Science Sunday School since I was five.) From then on I attended Sunday and Wednesday church services, read the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the Christian Science periodicals, and attended Christian Science lectures.

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