I am deeply grateful for all the...

Robert Zwilling

I am deeply grateful for all the good that has been revealed to me since I began the study of Christian Science. I can see that no truly good thing has ever been withheld from me. The correct way to go and right decisions have always been revealed to me when I relied fully upon God. In instances where mistakes seem inevitable and a backward step almost certain, I am learning that good alone is inevitable, and I have always been privileged to take two steps forward for every step backward.

Since coming into the Army my desire to serve my country and my fellow man has been enriched and made more practical by Christian Science. Christian Science has not only made me a better soldier, but it has also enabled me to be of some help to others, and at the same time it has protected me under many trying circumstances. On one occasion, while changing guard, the soldier before me failed to unload his gun completely. Although I reminded him that he was carrying five shells in his gun, he insisted that he was carrying but four. Upon testing his gun to make certain that the piece was completely unloaded he removed four shells, pushed in the bolt, and pulled the trigger. The fifth shell exploded perilously near my head. The hearing in one of my ears was impaired for several days, but this condition soon disappeared as I held to the ever-presence and allness of good, or God. I felt a great sense of reassurance because of this strong proof of divine protection which I had experienced.

Prior to my army physical examination I was healed of a chronic heart ailment which I had feared for years. I had worked long and diligently to overcome this condition, and twice it had apparently disappeared, but the fear of it was latent in my thought, and finally, after a rather stirring experience in which human hatred, fear, and other emotions were violently brought to the front, the condition presented itself again. This time it became so acute that it seemed as though my very life was at stake. A Christian Science practitioner was called, but my thought was not receptive. A rather fiery trial ensued, a deep sense of despondency and selfishness was uncovered, and then I was healed. The value of the lesson learned is reverberating yet, for I gained among other things a stronger and purer faith in God.

I was completely protected from any disturbing aftereffect whatsoever during the long period of inoculations which are required by the Army. I was obedient to the requirements, but was careful to keep my thought as fearless, quiet, and God-filled as possible.

Wherever I have been, regardless of the work I was required to do and in spite of the claims of the material senses, which so often seem aggravated in a wartime army, I have found that because I am earnestly striving to improve my thinking and to put into practice all that Christian Science has to offer, my experience has been enriched.

I have learned that progress, which our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us is God's law (see Science and Health, p. 233), has always been present, but that this law cannot be obeyed or demonstrated while we are clinging to a human sense of self. The Christian Science literature has been priceless to me. My gratitude for class instruction from a loyal teacher can scarcely be expressed here, nor the enlightening experience of having served as an associate in a Christian Science Benevolent Association Sanatorium adequately described. That precious sense of God's love for His children, which is revealed in Christian Science, is protecting every soldier who is fighting for true freedom, wherever he is. Mrs. Eddy has indeed revealed to us our true heritage, and we love her and are grateful to her in the proportion that we love Christian Science.—(Pfc.) Robert Zwilling, St. Joseph, Missouri.

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