Extracts from Letters

[From a soldier]

"I cannot but realize what a great help Christian Science has been to me, and I fearlessly welcome the trials which will confront me and enable me to prove and improve my understanding of the truth."

"I wish to express the gratitude I feel for the revelation of the power of divine Love, gained through studying 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures' by Mrs. Eddy. Divine Love has certainly been my guide and protector since I became interested in Christian Science some three years ago, and especially in the last year, which has been spent in the Army. I have felt the presence of divine protection from the first prick of the inoculation needle to my first baptism of shell fire. It has been manifested continuously and in so many ways,—always guiding, cheering like the sun, always opening new vistas of health and beauty, and new paths of safety, happiness, and contentment.

"Christian Science has protected and carried me through several attacks of bowel trouble and of colds, given me strength to endure Army life, courage to overcome temptation, and patience to watch and pray. I am so grateful for the loving, cheering, and protecting thoughts of friends, who are ever present except to the mortal eye. I am very grateful for the Christian Science publication, which are so kindly and regularly sent. I am very grateful to God, to Mrs. Eddy, and to all connected with Christian Science, for the wonderful uplifting thoughts received."

A man sends this statement in a letter written while he lay in a front line trench with all the seeming horror of battle going on: "You don't know how grateful I am for Christian Science and what it has meant to me! Why, the world is just full of sunshine, and the mental clouds of fear, discouragement, doubt, danger, and the like, are of our own making."

"This year has brought me face to face with things I never expected to have to meet, and one thing comes to me as the biggest we all have to learn,—that our everyday thought and speech and deed will fit or unfit us for the test when it comes. In our quiet little life at home we do not realize that every decision and desire is molding us for a service in which we shall stand or fall according to our fidelity and sincerity to Truth in the past. You may be able to smile and say, 'It's all right,' when the error is the usual petty problem of the home, where one has quiet rooms and harmonious surroundings, loving friends, family, and all the padding that goes with it ordinarily. But when you get up against it, raw, crude, repulsive, amid noise, confusion, and pressure, it's no use to bluff. You have either got to know the truth or you are going to go under; and you can't know the truth without handling it just as you would anything you wanted to know and understand, continually and from every angle. We have the chance to do that at home,—the chance to do it scientifically and without suffering, and it is that which so many of us don't see clearly. When you are called quickly to the humanly impossible you have got to know the scientific state of being and not just the words of 'the scientific statement of being,' as found on page 468 of our textbook, 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.'"

"It might interest you to know that part of the amount is sent by two little children who attend The Mother Church Sunday school. Our little three-year-old daughter sends thirty-eight pennies, which represent an equal number of acts of service joyfully performed by her so that she might help the little French and Belgian children. Our five-year-old son sends a dollar and sixty cents which he, too, has earned with the desire to do his bit. I feel sure that the love and joy which the children expressed in their desire to be of service will be equally as helpful as their contribution. We are all three grateful for the privilege of contributing our mite toward the wonderful work being done through the War Relief committees of The Mother Church."

[From a soldier]

"The fifteen dollars for the War Relief fund is an expression of gratitude for the helpful work being done in the camp here by the committee."

[From a previous contributor of like amount]

"I inclose check for one thousand dollars toward the funds of the War Relief activities. What a wonderful work they are doing."

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