Article June 8, 1918 Issue

Christian Science is mentioned in one of the interesting...

Aaron E. Brandt—Philadelphia, Pa.

The Press

Christian Science is mentioned in one of the interesting letters of a soldier undergoing training in the aviation service at the front. Owing to the fact that Christian Science is proving itself very helpful to many boys in the service, the mistake made by him in supposing that Christian Science consists of using one's will power in "imagining a steam heat plant" to be present when he is cold, and trying to convince himself that his stomach is full when hungry, should not be allowed to appear without correction.

To depend upon will power for help in such circumstances is no doubt better relatively than to submit without resistance, but to imagine things as stated can give no real help, and would ultimate in mentally unbalancing a man. Christian Science, on the other hand, shows one how to lean upon a sustaining Providence as a child of God, with a measure of that spiritual understanding which Jesus endeavored to give mankind.

To understand even a mite of the truth which sustained Jesus in the wilderness, and Moses and Elijah forty days without material food, and while enduring other hardships, is too helpful and too greatly needed by the boys in the service to be lightly passed over as a process of the imagination. In no war of the world's history had the soldiers engaged therein a better right to the support of an overruling Providence than our boys have in the present contest, fighting unselfishly for the liberty of the world, and the freedom of nations to work out their own destiny.

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