I have so much good for which...

Palmer W. Holmes

I have so much good for which to be grateful that I hardly know where to begin in an expression of gratitude.

All the good that has come to me I attribute to Christian Science, and moments of anguish have been suffered only when Science has not been applied.

Not long ago I completed nearly two years' military duty in northwestern Canada and southeastern Alaska in connection with the construction of the Alaska Highway and the Canol project. At first the thought of being stationed for an indefinite period in Whitehorse, a little town in the interior of northwestern Canada, did not seem like much of a contribution to the war effort. But I soon found God's guiding hand in this assignment, and later it was my happy privilege to serve as First Reader at informal Sunday services for our congregation of six.

Through periods of mass belief in sickness attributed to the extremely low temperatures, which reached sixty-five degrees below zero during our first winter, and on official business trips that covered at least fifty thousand miles by boat, plane, truck, and train, the protection of divine Love was found to be ever present, as I endeavored to rely totally on God.

In one instance. I recall, it was necessary to visit Sitka, a military post and Naval air station situated about one hundred miles to sea off the coast of Juneau, Alaska. Because the Naval plane I should have taken was full I was obliged to find other accommodations. This I did in a small commercial plane which rode as though its best days of service were far in the past. The weather was extremely foggy, and we had to fly as low as fifty feet above the water, the better to see and grope our way around the many little islands that flecked that area. Surely divine Mind was the real pilot of that ship, for we suddenly found the water landing ramp of our destination conveniently in front of us. When we landed I found that the Naval plane above referred to had just crashed.

I am grateful for the splendid work of the Camp Welfare Activities and for The Christian Science Journal, the Quarterly, the Sentinel, and The Christian Science Monitor, all of which came to me regularly when all other communications were delayed.

I am also deeply grateful for the quick healing, through my understanding of Christian Science, of several serious physical ailments. One was of the effects of a hard fall on a slippery sidewalk. I had had a similar experience before I knew of Christian Science, and it resulted in a broken wrist that took six weeks to heal. But in the recent experience, the instant application of the truth was such a protection that in two days all evidence of the fall had been removed.

I am unspeakably grateful for everything that the name of Mary Baker Eddy means to me, and to all Christian Scientists. But, more than all else. I am grateful to the one source of all good—our Father-Mother God, divine Mind.— (Lt. Col.) Palmer W. Holmes, Chicago, Illinois.

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