"The first two pages of the following letter from a Belgian soldier in France may be interesting to you, and perhaps to the field, as it reflects so admirably upon the War Relief and Camp Welfare committee.
We are supposed to be a Christian people, supposed to have inherited and to be maintaining that faith in God which inspired the Pilgrim Fathers to brave the dangers of the uncharted ocean and the uncertainties of a country unsettled and occupied with hostile peoples.
An article headed "End of World Near at Hand," reports a sermon preached by an evangelist, in which he speaks of the various teachings regarding the second coming of Christ Jesus as "fanatical and unwarranted," mentioning Christian Science as one of these.
One
windy day, while crossing in a small gasoline propelled ferryboat that part of the middle Columbia River where the canyon is deep and the current strong, and where the west wind meeting the opposing action of the water agitates it into whitecapped waves, it came clearly to my thought that we are protected from the elements just in the degree that we reflect the intelligence of divine Love, by means of which we can ride safely over all that appears to threaten us.
In
these days when so much is heard on every side of home ties broken by the absence of those who have gone out to serve in this time of the world's great need, it is well now and then to ponder over that loved word home, and to realize what its true meaning in divine Science is.
Woodrow Wilson
with contributions from Robert Lansing
It
has long been our custom to turn, in the autumn of the year, in praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for His many blessings and mercies to us as a nation.
