[From a Christian Science Officiating Minister]

This is the case of a British soldier, one of a tank crew serving in Western Europe. When the tank broke down and was shelled by the enemy it caught fire, and this man was trapped half in and half out of the manhole at the top. He found himself in flames, and was resigned to death, when he seemed to hear his little son calling him to get out. This child had been sent to the Christian Science Sunday School. The father's thought at first was, "I can't," but then Mary Baker Eddy's words, so often seen on the walls of our churches, came to him, "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 494), and almost immediately the tank driver (the only other member of its crew left alive) and some passing Canadians came to his rescue and pulled him out, rolling him into a near-by ditch of water.

Then the problem of getting him back to a dressing station, through the German lines, presented itself. Three of the men volunteered, two to carry him and one to carry a white flag. The patient by this time was unconscious of what was happening, though he says he could still hear his little boy calling. When he eventually came to at the dressing station, the bearers said they had not met a single German, in spite of the racket he was making shouting out.

"What was that you were shouting?" asked one of them. "I don't know," he replied. "Well," said the bearer, "it was something about divine something meeting something, and you kept shouting it over and over again." The soldier then asked to see a Christian Science Officiating Minister, and was told he could not, as there was none nearer than Brussels at the time. But he still held on to the thought that divine Love having met his need so far would continue to do so, and within a very short time he was on his way to England by air.

When he came to a hospital in this Command, the Minister was quickly informed, work was taken up immediately, a local practitioner obtained, and stage by stage a very remarkable healing was brought about. The ward he was in was classed as the worst in England for terrible sights, and he as the worst case in it. His brother was unable to bear it when he first saw him, and the soldier when he saw himself afterwards told me that the photograph of his face taken when he came in showed that he was not only burnt but charred black.

Other parts of his body were burned to the bone, and it was considered that at least four months would elapse before he would be at all presentable. Yet, with Christian Science help, in a month's time he was able to spend a week end out of the hospital with his wife and child, to go to the cinema, and to see quite normally. No grafting had to be done, and the surgeons predicted that there would be no facial scars.

In several such instances of facial burns, the benediction, "The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace" (Num. 6:24-26), has helped the men to gain the clear realization of the unchanging beauty and perfection of man under all circumstances, and has had powerful effect in the healing work.

[From a volunteer Christian Science Wartime Worker in Germany]

Recently I enjoyed a furlough to the United Kingdom, during which it was my great pleasure to meet many of the persons who are active in other localities. To talk to these persons and to hear their experiences was most inspiring. I am grateful for the Rest Rooms which provided a haven as I traveled through Belgium and France; the loving assistance I received will be an endless source of gratitude to me.

[From the Mother of a Pilot formerly reported missing in action]

When my son's plane was shot down over France in June, 1944, he had with him his copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. He said he never before appreciated Science and Health as he did during his waiting period in France. He read the book through twice and started through the third time. His liberation came the latter part of August, 1944.

The French people risked their own lives to protect him. They knew that if he were found in their homes they would probably be killed, yet that threat did not prevent them from sheltering him.

During all his period in enemy-occupied territory my son was never really hungry. He never suffered from cold. It was even warm and dry the first night he spent alone in a woods. I surely feel that he was divinely protected. He returned to the United States in October, 1944.

[From our London Committee]

One boy acknowledges that his leg was saved from amputation through the help he received in Christian Science. The wound was very badly poisoned and his condition rather critical. Amputation was considered to be the only remedy. In a short time, however, the wound healed naturally and well, and the leg was saved.