William Morgan, M.D., wrote a letter in support of parents who had chosen to rely on spiritual means for healing of children. In this interview he indicates some of what prompted him to write.
To examine what underlies healing through prayer is also to examine some of the basic truths of reality itself, truths that any genuine searcher wants to understand more fully.
"If I could be granted just one wish in the war against disease, it would be to liberate people from the panic that is the almost instinctive response to.
We seldom may think about the way in which we arrive at certain conclusions. Then something shifts; we see a wholly new way and a wholly different conclusion.
I see that I traveled a long and sometimes difficult journey from a solely mortal sense of existence to a more spiritual one, from the time I was twelve years of age to the time I was thirty-six, when I embraced Christian Science.
Shirley Ayers
with contributions from Bruce M. Ayers
Today, when Christian Scientists are being so challenged as to the validity and acceptability of spiritual healing, especially for children, I would like to add my testimony to the others that I am finding in our periodicals.
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