Eager
for duty and obedient to orders as men and women in the services may be, yet the human belief in danger and loss, as well as a sense of personal responsibility for the successful accomplishment of an important and hazardous assignment, may try to fetter the flight or weigh down the thought by suggestions of failure or accident.
Christian Science
teaches men how to let the divine overcome the human, in accordance with Mary Baker Eddy's statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures".
Christ Jesus
' simple and concise instruction in his Sermon on the Mount, "Let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil," challenges thought as to its meaning.
The generous and steadily increasing contributions of branch churches, societies, and individual Christian Scientists are enabling The Mother Church to maintain and increase its wartime activities.
The
Christian Scientist learns to approach and to celebrate Christmas not as the anniversary of a mortal event, thought of with awe and wonder; not as a time for mere present-giving and festivity.
Over a period of eight years I have come to know from firsthand experience what Christian Science can mean to a man tempted to believe in sickness, accidents, disfigurement, and mental stress.
Many years have passed since I experienced my first wonderful healing of serious eye trouble and organic difficulties through the efficacy of Christian Science.
With all my heart, I thank our Father-Mother God for having led me to Christian Science, and I am deeply grateful to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for her inspired work for mankind.
Each succeeding day finds me increasingly grateful to God for making available to human consciousness His Christ, which was so perfectly explained and demonstrated in the life of Jesus.
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