The Washington herald., 1918-06-17

error Of mortal mind. Once mortal
mind is brought into harmony with
God, Infinite Mind. Truth, Love, there
can be no such thing as fear.
If Christian Science soldier has
no conception of fear. then fighting
ought to be the best thing he does.
Applying the same kind of reasoning
a little further. If the entire American
Army. in the force that 1t will finally
muster on the west front, were COM
posed entirely Of Christian Scientists,
Pershing would be leading the grand
march into Berlin before the Kaiser
knew what had hit him. The total
absence Of fear on the part of Chris
tian soldiers was emphasized in the
Christian Science Sentinel in an edi-
torial published on April "a. which, in
part, reads:
Many Of the members Of this
(Science) invincible army wear The
uniform Of their country and 20 where
their duty calls upon them to be,
| finding no valley OF the shadow OF
death to go through. because they
maintain the assurance that God is
life and man cannot be separated
from God. Consequently, amid trials
. they are not afraid and give courage
| 10 InelT conn dOeS.
In a recent issue Of the Christian
Science Monitor we find this: Now,
in destroying an unreal mental phe-
| nomenon. there Is no difference
whether it be a torpedo in the Attain
! tic. shell in No Mans Land. a wound
/ in a dressing station, or q fever in
7 a base hospital. You do not turn
aside torpedo or a shell in flight, or
bayonet thrust any more than you
| will away 4 fever. What you do is
| to realize that these things are not
made OF things that do appear You
endeavor to grasp the fact that, in
asmuch as a lie cannot be about moth
ing. your torpedo. shell. bayonet
| thrust, or fever must be a lie about
some truth, which when you know
| it frees you from the effect
OF the ignorance bred OF the
material. When once you
have grasped that mstaphysically.
and attune your life to that precept.
you will find how utterly impossible
\ it is that the false concept for a lie,
whether in the shape OF torpedo, shell,
bayonet thrust. or fever. shall ever
come nigh you"
| II that theory works in France
and in Flanders it's all off with the
1 Kaiser and the rest of the central
powers. Or. rather. it would be, II
We could have more Christian Scien-
lists in our army than anything else.
For, If our shells and shrapnel and
the bullets of our machine guns and
| rifles can annihilate. but the shells
and shr<pnel and bullets of the enemy
can do no harm, then it is absolutely
certain that the Germans can't win
| il they fight a million years-provided
the allied armies were made up en-
tirely of Christian Scientists.
But the most mystifying and inter
esting feature of this theory is that
it works. At least. Christian Scien-
| lists have gone down into the valley
of the shadow in Flanders and in
| France and have come back I'M
scathed to tell their story, while SOL
diers of other beliefs and no beliefs
passed on into the land of silence.
The Christian Science organization
will cite many cases in proof Of this
and. If it is desired, give the names
and addresses of the men referred to.
For instance. take the cases Of those
two Christian Science boys in the
British army at the battle of Vimy
| Ridge. The fighting for the posses
sion Of that little elevation above
the sand dunes of Flanders had been
raging all day. Half the regiment
to which these English boys belonged
had been cut to pieces. In the late
afternoon, when the western sky was
brilliant with the colors of sunset,
the Britishers found themselves en-
tirely cut of from their comrades,
with shrapnel and gas shells and ma
chine gun bullets screaming and
whistling all about them. They could
neither advance nor retreat.
| They made their way as best they
could. first in one direction and then
in another along the ridge, and finally
dropped into a deep shell hole. The
shells continued to shrek and break
above them. but none came nigh
unto them" After a little they
pulled themselves together and one
quietly drew from his pocket the Sun
day school lesson for the following
Sunday and suggested to his COM
rade that they might as well study
It together in that shell hole as any
where else.
And so they did that very thing
and, when the day had gone out of
the west and the night shadows had
fallen over the field, although the
big guns were still booming, the boys
decided to attempt to get back to
their own line. They affirmed to
each other their oneness with God
Life; and. sometimes crawling, some.
times running, sometimes lying fiat
on their faces, they eventually got
safely back among their fellows in
the British forces.
In the first raid made by the Ger.
mans on the American sector neal
Toul a noncommissioned officer oi
the old American regular army got
a nasty wound in one of his ARM
between the wrist and the elbow. H,
was ordered to front-line dressing
station, but had not gone far wher
he dropped from Toss of blood. HI
: had been a Christian Scientist for sew