Article October 27, 1945 Issue

Excerpts from Letters Concerning Christian Science Wartime Activities

[From a Christian Science Officiating Minister]

This is the case of a British soldier, one of a tank crew serving in Western Europe. When the tank broke down and was shelled by the enemy it caught fire, and this man was trapped half in and half out of the manhole at the top. He found himself in flames, and was resigned to death, when he seemed to hear his little son calling him to get out. This child had been sent to the Christian Science Sunday School. The father's thought at first was, "I can't," but then Mary Baker Eddy's words, so often seen on the walls of our churches, came to him, "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 494), and almost immediately the tank driver (the only other member of its crew left alive) and some passing Canadians came to his rescue and pulled him out, rolling him into a near-by ditch of water.

Then the problem of getting him back to a dressing station, through the German lines, presented itself. Three of the men volunteered, two to carry him and one to carry a white flag. The patient by this time was unconscious of what was happening, though he says he could still hear his little boy calling. When he eventually came to at the dressing station, the bearers said they had not met a single German, in spite of the racket he was making shouting out.

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