CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
Organization continued uninterruptedly until the United States was fully covered and the work in and out of the camps grew rapidly month by month as Christian Scientists learned more of what was being accomplished and of its value. Under this plan the activities reached their highest point in October of 1918. At that time there were employed by the Committee over two hundred men and women distributed throughout the camps, hospitals, barracks and various training centers in the United States and abroad. The record of the work done by these men and women constitutes a story of unwonted activity, of unselfish devotion to duty and one unusually rich with incidents testifying to the efficacy of the service rendered. A detailed history of the work of any one of them would in most cases require a volume larger than this report, though it would be replete with interest throughout.
The rapidity with which the organization of the Camp Welfare Committee was perfected, the unity of thought and action expressed by Scientists everywhere, the astonishing results that immediately and continuously rewarded the ministrations of the Workers in camp and hospital, all testify to the readiness of the Christian Science movement to respond wholeheartedly to every proper call made upon it and give evidence of its efficiency in hours of emergency.
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