To say that I am grateful for Christian Science is to express very inadequately the gratitude I feel, and which I can only show in living so as to be worthy of the name Christian Scientist. I learned of this teaching in the first place through my parents, about eight or nine years ago, but at the time did not appreciate the necessity of studying it faithfully. Since then I have come to value the divine message contained in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, to whom my gratitude is beyond words.
Five years ago I was a prey to many forms of error, such as selfishness, self-righteousness, drink, and dissatisfaction with the world's forms of society and justice. The drink habit left me three years ago, and I am learning more and more every day that God is Love. When I married, in 1915, my wife and I were both in a state of slavery to adverse conditions of every sort, but through the realization of God's power as taught in Christian Science our every need has been supplied. To-day I can say with conviction that I cannot estimate the depths wherein I should have been now, had not this Science been our guardian all the way.
Since the commencement of the war I have been in the Royal Navy, and have had many beautiful proofs of the fact that "underneath are the everlasting arms." Apart from having been preserved unharmed throughout the whole three years and a half of work at sea, I was brought through the thick of the battle of Jutland in a destroyer, at times in a rain of shell, without feeling the slightest trace of fear and without anything more than a few small splinters touching the boat, although ships next to us were blown up. I was conscious of God's loving protection throughout, and Truth was proved to me a veritable "shield and buckler."
