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 “I want to express my gratitude to God for healing I received while in Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas. At first the doctors at the base hospital said it was necessary that I be operated on for hernia. Then it was decided that my physical condition would not allow me to undergo an operation, asthma and consumption being the other ailments. On meeting the Camp Welfare Worker, I asked him if anything could be done for me and he, of course, explained that everything was possible with God. My healing took place in a few days and from that day to this I have never seen the hernia, nor felt any effect from the other so-called diseases. I also was troubled with a stomach complaint before leaving home, which has disappeared.

“Since my return I have put on weight so rapidly and look so well that all my friends remark what good the army has done for me, but I know that it is my faith in God and the light I have gained through Christian Science which, has brought this improvement. I make the best use of the little khaki Science and Health, reading it every morning on my way to work. My wife is also greatly interested. I am very grateful to God and to our Leader.

“Chicago, Illinois.”&emsp;

The following was written direct to a Worker: “I was taken to the naval base hospital on November 28, 1918, with spinal meningitis. This is considered to be a very deadly disease, in 1918 ninety-five out of a hundred cases proving fatal. I lay suffering in its worst agonies for nine days. I did not know at the time even that you had been there, for I was too far gone. My mother, who was by my bedside, told me you had promised to do some work for me. On the next day after your visit my suffering left entirely and it was only a short time before I was out of bed. I have had the quickest recovery on record and am today sound and whole in every sense of the word. Indeed, so good is my