Healed by Christian Science

Archibald Mclellan

THE following item, which we copy from the Washington (D.C.) Times, adds interest to the statement recently given out, that the pension roll of the United States government reached its "high water mark" last January, and that it has since fallen off. The Times says,—

"If an epidemic that has recently broken out among pension-drawing veterans throughout the country spreads, the Pension Office will soon have a sort of conscience fund, which will rival that of the Treasury Department.

"About two weeks ago a Grand Army veteran in the West, wrote to the Commissioner of Pensions that he had recovered the health he had lost years ago, and felt that he was no longer entitled to draw a pension. This has been followed by several other waivers of pension claims from pensioners in various parts of the country.

"The most recent case is that of a man who lives at Pierre, S. D., a letter from whom was received by Commissioner Warner yesterday. It read,—

" 'Dear Mr. Commissioner:— I feel that I am no longer entitled to draw a pension from Uncle Sam. I was disabled for many years, but now I am well.

" ' Christian Science has cured me and you need not send me any more money.'

"This man draws a pension of six dollars a month.

" The beauty of it is,' said Commissioner Warner in discussing the subject yesterday, 'that whenever he wants to, that man can call on us to resume payment of his pension and we will have to do so. He does not relinquish any rights, and if his cure should prove only temporary he can come back into the fold and draw his six dollars every month.'

"Most pensions which have been relinquished lately— and there have been a dozen or more since Mr. Warner came into office—were small ones, but one man gave up thirty dollars a month."

The pensioner whose letter is quoted above is not the only one who has given up his pension for this reason, and in the first case of the kind the Commissioner 'would not accede to the unusual request until a medical examination had satisfied him that the conscientious veteran who wished to take such a radical step was sound in mind as well as in body. Thus the fact that Christian Science heals the sick was established as a matter of record in the Pension Office.

It certainly is much pleasanter to know that the pension roll is being reduced in this way, even in a small degree, than it is to think of its reduction through the death of those brave men who, in their country's hour of need, periled all that humanity holds most dear in order "that this nation, under God," should "have a new birth of freedom."

Archibald Mclellan.

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