CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
they were reaping of his spiritual gifts he must at least share their material ones. The Padres of other denominations were also very happy about the advent of the War Relief Room at Blandford, and not only did they frequently visit it themselves, but they were anxious their boys should do so. So in the words of the Worker:
“We are all just one big happy family working together for God, if through different channels, still with the same spirit, trying to remember that ‘God ordains no other bands, than united hearts and hands’ ” (Christian Science Hymnal).
The men and women who have heard of Christian Science through the War Relief Rooms and have taken up the study have, in frequent instances, not only been healed themselves, but have carried the good news back to their homes and have there demonstrated the understanding gained. The story is recorded of a young soldier who, with only a dawning knowledge of the teachings of Christian Science, healed instantaneously two of his mates who were ill with influenza. Another man returning home on leave found his wife seriously ill, and after telling her of his new-found knowledge of God, and reading to her passages from the textbook, to his great joy she declared she was healed and able to attend to her work again. Many accounts have come in of men who “facing fearful odds” on land and sea, have come through unscathed and who attribute their safety to their understanding of Christian Science. The Workers in the different Rooms testify that the men have seemed as though they were literally hungering and thirsting after righteousness and that, having received the bread of life, they have in their turn “borne this
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