Article November 9, 1946 Issue

Concerning Christian Science Wartime and Postwar Activities

[From a Christian Scientist in England]

In "the First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says (p. 9), "I never before felt poor in thanks, but I do now, and will draw on God for the amount I owe you, till I am satisfied with what my heart gives to balance accounts." Her words I am echoing in this letter. ... Previous to the arrival of your first food parcel I had been under a cloud of feeling lonely and apart, of being almost forsaken. ... Then came your parcel and suddenly I felt that I was not alone nor separated from good. ... I had that very day made an appointment with a local Christian Science practitioner to whom I was going to take my problem. I kept the appointment, but instead of my pouring out a tale of self-pity, we both spent an hour of praise and gratitude for the good we had received in such abundance; and the sun-lit room of the practitioner was further illumined by the spiritual rays of gratitude. There was not one word of error voiced during that time!

In both of my parcels there were garments for small boys. Some will be useful to my grandson. ... I found the little grandson of the practitioner to whom I had gone was the right person for another garment. A pair of good stout overalls and a shirt are now the possession of a little boy who has started visiting the Christian Science Sunday School. ...

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