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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
When
men seek wealth in money or lands, when they seek honor from the fair words of their neighbors, or love from those whom they favor, they find that limitations also arise; the thief, the invader, the traducer, and the ingrate oppose the harmony they desire.
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My apparent delay in expressing my gratitude for the many blessings received through Christian Science has not been due to lack of appreciation of them or of gratitude to God, the great and only Physician.
I should like to add my testimony to the thousands already published as tokens of gratitude and encouragement from those who have felt the great benefits of Christian Science teaching.
I should like to express my ever increasing gratitude to God for His faithfulness to all generations and for the manifestation to this age that "we are saved by hope" in the giving of "the light of the glorious gospel" through Mrs.
There is not a day passes in which I do not have occasion to be grateful for Christian Science, and especially since my enlistment in the Army have I found the truth to be an ever present help in time of trouble.
Words are inadequate to express one's gratitude for Christian Science, especially during troublous times, so I wish to add my testimony to those of many others who have received much help and encouragement from its loving ministrations, hoping it may help some one along the way.
About three years ago our little daughter fell from our porch railing to the ground, a distance of several feet, receiving an injury to her shoulder which was very painful.
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