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 “I wish to express my gratitude for the blessings I enjoy because Christian Science has entered into my experience. For the past twelve years, I have relied entirely upon Christian Science as my physician. However, while in the service of the government, though I was inoculated and vaccinated a number of times, because this was compulsory under medical regulations, I was never affected by these operations as I knew no harm could result to God's idea, since man in His image and likeness, needed no serums of any sort to sustain perfect health, because perfection is the natural order of man's being. The sergeant who gave me the last shot seemed somewhat annoyed because the previous shots failed to take effect, so he pushed the needle fully a half inch into the flesh of my arm, remarking as he did so, ‘I know you feel that anyway.’ Though the mark is still visible on the arm, it is perfectly healed over, and no ill effects followed from this treatment.

“During the period when a number of the men in Vancouver Barracks, Washington, were under medical treatment, suffering because of the epidemic, I had listened to so much talk of the disease that I was caught napping, for I was not standing ‘porter at the door of thought’ (Science and Health, page 392), and as a result there was evidenced the symptoms of the ‘flu’ in all its fury. I tried for two days to overcome it, but on the third day it seemed that a trip to the hospital was inevitable. I managed to get away from the tent and found a Camp Worker who talked with me for an hour and a half and made clear to me the thought that God gave man dominion over all error and therefore I was the master over any evil that tried to attack me, and he held this thought so firmly that I was suddenly freed from all discord and returned to camp rejoicing and slept well all night. I ate very heartily at breakfast and resumed my duties as acting mess sergeant.

“The many blessings I enjoyed through the efforts of the War Relief Committee of the Christian Science movement