Article September 27, 1919 Issue

Extracts from Letters

"I wish to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for Christian Science. Beginning in a camp in the United States, my work as chaplain has taken me to the embarkation port and overseas, through the debarkation camp into a replacement depot in the Intermediate Section of the S. O. S. of the A. E. F., where I have met men on their way to the front lines and coming back from the front. At every stage of my experience I have found proof of the healing work of Christian Science in the demonstrations made by the soldiers. The men in our Army have come into their new conditions from widely differing spheres of life, but the comradeship of Christian Science has brought them together as nothing else would have done, and wherever I have gone I have found these little bands of students discovering their mutual interest in Christian Science, and thereafter working together in most practical Christian fellowship.

"For my own self I have found healing from sickness through reliance solely on Christian Science. In an army camp in the United States I one evening thought myself too sick to keep out of bed, but when one of the soliders asked me to see him and tell him something of Christian Science, I was recalled to a better understanding of this teaching, and found myself well before our conversation was ended. Again, on the transport when the voyage seemed hard and there was great fear of the epidemic raging on board, I began to find I was feeling as badly as the others; but after one night spent on the deck talking with a boy beginning to be interested in Christian Science, there was never a return of these symptoms. Here in France whenever a sense of sickness has manifested itself, I have found it merely a demand for more earnest work. I can say truly that I have been helped many times, not only in sickness but in times of threatened danger from accident.

"But above all I wish to speak of my gratitude for the sense of protection that I have felt. At times when I have seen new-made friends depart and have felt alone, I have realized that all these new-made friends have been the result of mutual interest in Christian Science, and that they have been friends in every sense, although never acquainted before arriving in France. This is a necessary result of Christian Science, for we are never left alone. Divine Love protects us through every trial, and we will feel this protection everywhere we go. At times when the results of accidents have seemed unfavorable the same sense of protection has comforted me and shown me to look rather for the good results from ever present Love."

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