I should like to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for my family and me and for what it is doing for the entire world. I am especially grateful for the wonderful healing work The Christian Science Monitor is doing in bringing the light of Truth to the world situation.
Being a serviceman I am grateful for the work that is being done by the Christian Science Camp Welfare Workers. After I was inducted into the service in November, 1950, I held a false sense of responsibility for my widowed mother and thirteen-year-old sister, who were left alone. Their supply was meager, and I thought they would have to move to an unsuitable neighborhood. I could send home very little money to help them at first, and my mother's salary was not sufficient to meet their barest necessities.
As I talked over these problems with a Camp Welfare Worker it was brought out to me that I should rely wholeheartedly on God to lead the way for them and know that because Mind directs, the environment is pleasant and nothing is lacking. These truths seemed hard for me to accept at first, but I wrote to my mother and told her to do anything she felt guided to do.
Shortly afterward I went home on furlough, and she told me of all the marvelous blessings which had been showered upon her all at once. She had just received an unexpected check for four months' back payment from Social Security, and she was to receive a check every month; also, the same day she had received a raise in salary; and while I was at home, a friend told her of a much less expensive apartment which was available. My mother decided to take the apartment, and a kind neighbor supplied a hitching truck, which enabled us to move without cost.
I am so grateful for the wise and loving counsel of the Camp Welfare Worker, because it healed me of a false sense of responsibility and brought to light the error that was trying to limit the manifestation of God's goodness.
Truly, as Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 60). "Soul has infinite resources with which to bless mankind, and happiness would be more readily attained and would be more secure in our keeping, if sought in Soul." For the understanding that happiness, security, satisfaction, and supply are to be found in Soul, and not in human outlining and planning, I am very grateful to God.— Schweinfurt, Germany.
