[From a Christian Science Welfare Committee in Germany]

With unspeakable gratitude and joy we received your large shipment of gilts. One hundred and ninety one cases arrived on three days during the second week in September, and our storage room is now filled to the utmost.

The members of the Berlin Joint Well are Committee of Christian Science Churches for our portion of Germany are working eagerly to unpack and sort the contents. As soon as possible the various churches and groups will fetch the things assigned to them in order to make room for the opening of the next cases. Great is the joy of all recipients and especially of the Sunday School children, who got new shoes.

We know with how much work and love all this clothing was collected and packed and shipped, and how much care and wisdom was expressed in the small but very useful things which were added. Now it will be our next task to provide the zone and those friends who live quite alone in small places, so that they are supplied with warm clothing for the season to come. . . .

May divine Love bless you all for your loving-kindness. W e would be much obliged to you if you would express our deepest gratitude to all the donors. In Science and Health we read (p. 340): "One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture. 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.'"

[From a Christian Science Church in Britain]

The membership of this branch church desires me to express its grateful thanks for the thirty-nine CARL parcels which were received by us for distribution. My board is particularly grateful for your suggestion that they be shared not only amongst the membership but also amongst those who attend our services.

A committee was formed, and by loving and wise handling the contents of the parcels were distributed amongst one hundred and ninety-five people, of whom sixty are not yet church members, and each child in the Sunday School received a bar of chocolate. Approximately one third of the parcels were distributed to nonmembers. This is a high proportion of the total, but we feel it has been a splendid opportunity not only to share with others the liberal bounty which has come to us from The Mother Church, but it has also been an opportunity to strengthen the ties of friendship with those who have not yet taken the step of membership in our church. Great gratitude has been expressed for this practical evidence of brotherly love.

[From a Russian Christian Scientist in Germany]

Three days ago I received the parcel. .... Your good deed is God's good. There are no obstacles to good, in either time or space, nations or races. Receiving good, I myself am becoming better, kinder, more spiritually-minded and am feeling an influx of new and saving forces. It is wonderfully comforting to feel at times this inner strength and understanding, which I have not known before.

I cannot say that since I began studying Christian Science there have been no troubles, dangers, or unkind people .... No! Certainly everything is as it used to be. Others still fear, still see only evil everywhere, but the Christian Scientist understands that in reality no such things exist. Instead of persons who to others seem disagreeable and discourteous, the Scientist sees the child of God, harmless, amiable, and king.

Thanks to your help I am getting a firmer stand in Science, gradually mastering if not as yet the heights, at least some small elevation in my progress. But the sun does not appear all of a sudden. First we see the far-off redness of the dawn; then brighter rays appear; the radiance of light increases, and, finally, the real light follows. I can say with joy that I know more of Christian Science today than I did seven or eight months ago. With even greater joy I should like to say that soon this knowledge will be further improved in quality. May God help me.

[From a Christian Scientist in Britain]

We have been the grateful recipients of many parcels of food. ... The first parcel we received was the turning point for us. We had been in London with the children for the whole of the war. When the end of hostilities brought no relief from wartime austerities— rather the reverse in some cases— my wife and I began to feel very depressed. Then the first parcel came and with it a gleam of light. God was furnishing "a table in the wilderness." I looked up the passage in Science and Health (p. 135). and the next sentence stood out like a blaze of light: "What cannot God do."' That was the turning point, and we have never looked back to depression. It has culminated in the offer of a very good position in South Africa, and we are going back. It is a land of comparative plenty, and there will be no need for you to send parcels there. I was told it would be impossible for my wife and family to accompany me but I turned to God and said, "What cannot God do?" Now passage for all has been assured.