Article December 8, 1945 Issue

Excerpts from Letters Concerning Christian Science Wartime Activities

[From a Christian Science Officiating Minister]

A group of Americans formerly in the Air Corps were drafted into the infantry just before V-E Day, and some of them, being married men with families, felt the prospect of reunion fading even more into the distance. One of these men, a member of our Christian Science group, was particularly downcast, and brought the problem to the Christian Science Officiating Minister for advice and help. They spoke together of "His haven of Soul," for Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 152). "Into His haven of Soul there enters no element of earth to cast out angels, to silence the right intuition which guides you safely home." The man went away knowing that we entertain angels unawares at all times and in all circumstances, and that "the discipline of the flesh is designed to turn one, like a weary traveller, to the home of Love" (ibid., p. 84).

Six weeks later he returned— V-E Day having intervened—and he was now sent back to the Air Corps with every prospect of going back home to America. In the meanwhile, he stated, he would not have missed the experience for anything, as he was fitter than he had ever been before, and had a clearer sense of the co-operation between England and America and the value of friendship with English personnel. Time and again, under battle training with live ammunition, et cetera, he had been able to help a "buddy" who seemed to be lacking the necessary strength and courage for the task. But for Christian Science, he said, lie could not have kept pace with all the younger men, and would certainly have been in the depths of despondency.

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