With love and gratitude to Mrs. Eddy...

F. Gerald Borch

With love and gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for her unfaltering faith and love, I wish to take this opportunity to express my thankfulness for Christian Science. It has been the only physician in our home for the last thirty-five years. During those years every problem, whether mental, physical, or financial, was met with the true understanding of man given to us in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

I was born into a Christian Science family and had the wonderful opportunity of Sunday School attendance. When quite young I was completely healed of earache, which had kept me out of school for long periods at a time. From that day I have never experienced this condition, and throughout the remainder of my school and university careers I was seldom absent from school. I have been protected from experiencing most of the so-called children's disease and have always been a picture of health.

While at the university, I found Christian Science to be a great help to me in my studies. I was privileged to take advantage of the V-12 Navy College Training Program. During the years spent in this training, my future as a naval officer looked pretty doubtful at times, but with the loving and consecrated help of a practitioner all the mortal mind suggestions of my studies being difficult for me completely vanished, and I was enabled to receive my diploma and my naval commission. I knew that man can never be separated from God, and therefore he is always in his right place. I knew too that, as Mrs. Eddy says in our textbook on page 591, man is "the compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind."

I am grateful for all of the beautiful opportunities I had during this time for proving that Christian Science is truly the law of God. My association with the Christian Science Organization at the college proved to be a great source of help and inspiration to me.

I want to express my gratitude for the overcoming of seasickness, which seemed to attach itself to me whenever I went aboard a ship, large or small. I was on my way to the Philippine Islands not long ago aboard a Navy transport in what seemed to be a very rough sea, when the belief presented itself to me that I was going to follow in the path of my shipmates and let error take control of me. Immediately I declared the perfection of man. I opened the Christian Science Quarterly and read the current Lesson-Sermon, the subject of which was, "Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?" It came to me clearly that the sea is God's creation and therefore it is impossible for any part of God's creation to possess an element of inharmony or destruction. The whole conflict was a product of mortal mind. In Science and Health I read (p. 207): "There is but one primal cause. Therefore there can be no effect from any other cause, and there can be no reality in aught which does not proceed from this great and only cause. Sin, sickness, disease, and death belong not to the Science of being. They are the errors, which presuppose the absence of Truth, Life, or Love." Then I knew that it was not the motion of the water that was the inharmony, but my erroneous concept of man as being capable of expressing such inharmony. As soon as I reversed this false concept, I was completely healed and never experienced any further discomforts, although we did pass through rougher seas.

I have had many healings in Christian Science. A painful boil disappeared quickly after resentment had been removed from thought, rheumatism was permanently healed, and ingrowing toenails were cured.

I am sincerely grateful for the Committee on Wartime Activities for The Mother Church. My contacts with the Christian Science Wartime Ministers and Workers proved to be an abundant blessing. I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church and in a local branch church and for the privilege of serving in a college organization.—F. Gerald Borch, Los Angeles, California.

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