Article December 28, 1918 Issue

Extracts from Letters

"I feel my heart so swell with gratitude for the great blessing of Christian Science in general, and at this moment in particular for the wonderful way in which its literature has been made always accessible to the boys in khaki and blue, that I am constrained to express it in this note to you. I have had on my person during all my waking hours, in the cantonment in America, on shipboard in the Atlantic, and here in Europe, the little khaki textbook and the current Quarterly, with the abbreviated Hymnal. A few days ago the new miniature Bible reached me, through the Christian Science War Relief committee in Paris. It fills a long felt need for an edition of the entire Scriptures that can be carried on the person, even when the soldier is traveling with a pack.

"All thanks be to the Y. M. C. A. for the pocket New Testaments and the pocket editions of individual books, such as the Psalms. I have appreciated being privileged to carry even that much of the Book of books. But a Christian Scientist, anyway, desires the whole Bible, for his textbook had made it all living and eloquent to him, and that is why my gratitude is so great for this latest present to the boys in service. I have also been glad to receive copies of the Monitor, a familiar and welcome friend. My testimony to the physical, moral, and spiritual blessings Christian Science has brought me and mine might be added here, but I need only say they are legion. From an American soldier who is glad he fights under the banner of Truth."

[From a young officer]

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