For the privilege of many years' instruction in the Christian Science Sunday School I am deeply grateful. There I learned to study the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly daily and to turn to the Bible and to the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, to obtain that understanding of God which brings inspiration and healing.
During thirty-four months and nineteen days of overseas duty in World War II, there were many opportunities for me to test the practical nature of what I had learned in the Christian Science Sunday School. I found renewed inspiration by studying the Lesson-Sermons and by reading the articles published in the Christian Science periodicals.
While I was attending Officer Candidate School at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, sixteen other candidates and I were called before a board of officers to determine whether we were to complete the course or be "washed out." The night before I was to appear before the board, I read in the Bible these words (Acts 10: 34, 35), "I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." The thought that "God is no respecter of persons" freed me from fear of the interview. I was able to appear before the examining board the next day confident that I did possess the qualifications necessary to become an officer. Of the seventeen men who appeared before the board that day, only one other candidate and I were allowed to remain in school.
