Article July 27, 1946 Issue

Concerning Christian Science Wartime and Postwar Activities

[From a Christian Scientist in Germany]

With a heart overflowing with gratitude and joy I am sending this first letter abroad to you to where all my deepest feelings are united. ... Words cannot express what it meant for us all here in ––– when Chaplain ––– of the United States Army brought us the greetings and the Christian Science books from you. It was wonderful to receive again our beloved textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," for which we had been longing almost five years. It was more than longing, it was hungering—for our textbook meant to us all more than daily bread. Now you have fed us again the manna from heaven, our only rightful nourishment.

In reading the Bible Lessons the next days a bad condition of my eyes, calling for the wearing of glasses for three years, was instantly and completely overcome, so that I was healed of the need for glasses. This may show you more than words can do what your precious gift meant to me. ... In reading again the dear words and pages of our textbook I find the spiritual understanding of the words has taken the place of the mere literal meanings formerly accepted. It is to me as if a radiance of light has torn away all the darkness and fogs clouding my sight and vision. ... I promise as a member of The Mother Church to be yet more sincere in the great warfare of Truth, the only real savior in this time of general disorder and despair, to let my lamp be lit all these hours of night, to be ever watchful, and to grow in spiritual understanding, that the love of God may overflow my heart to comfort and heal those in need and give them the delivering touch of our grand Cause for the sake of the whole world.

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