UNSELFISH LABOR REWARDED
machine gun emplacements in the front lines in the dark, without a guide. This was accomplished without great difficulty, by knowing that the problem was a purely mental one, and that man is controlled by divine intelligence.
“When the orders came for the assault of the German lines, I was enabled to work continuously for several days and nights with little or no sleep. On the third day of the drive, my immediate superior having been injured, I was placed in command of the regiment. Turning to God, the unfailing source of help, I was able to work out all of the many problems that arose.
“On the night before we were relieved I was called to Brigade Headquarters from the front. A heavy fire of Austrian eighty-eight shells was sweeping the road which I must follow to keep my direction. Having constantly in mind the scientific application of the 91st Psalm, I accomplished the trip. My clothes were torn somewhat by the shells; but no injury came to me. On returning to my headquarters I was again hit by shells. This time the blows were so hard as to render me unconscious for several hours; but again I was not hurt, beyond feeling the force of the blows of the shell fragments, which did not penetrate my body. Upon reaching my headquarters I was informed that I had again been sent for by the Commanding General. I made the trip again under the same conditions, and was again uninjured, although my clothes were very much torn and one of the staff remarked that my first-aid packet, worn on my hip, had been shot away.
“I owe my deliverance to Christian Science. This was not only true in my own case, but in that of every one of those near me whose dependence was on God in these hours of peril. Not one of them was injured.
“ ‘Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed love, receives directly the divine power.’ (Science and Health, page 192.)
“(Signed) Karl I. Best,
“(Late) Lt. Col. Infantry A. E. F.”
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