CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
“First, he inquires of the railroad representative when the next troop trains will leave, that he may distribute Monitors on them. Then, in crossing the street to the post office for his mail, he is approached by a stranger—a shy, diffident country boy who has evidently just been drafted and who has a letter to the Commanding Officer, a mile or so down the camp. So the Worker invites him to get into the machine and they start for the Receiving Office. On the way there he makes a stop at the Fire Department headquarters, where twenty-five Monitors are left. Then the Receiving Station is reached, where the young patriot is to be initiated into a new experience and gain a larger vision of world events.
“It was Love's direction to perform this kindly service and to give a few words of loving counsel, which seemed greatly appreciated. But now, in its own way, Love seemed to halt all activities and to direct the Worker to take time to read the recent Monitors which he had just received at the post office. So, quietly and leisurely, in the face of many things demanding his time, he drove his car to an open space near by the receiving tents and began to read the Monitor. Why he should have taken even this twenty minutes in the midst of an overfull day of duties was not at the time just clear to him, but since he felt peaceful about it, he enjoyed the recreation and feast of good things that the reading brought. The reason for this pause, however, was soon made clear when presently, an officer, seeing the lettering on the car, stepped up to the machine with the exclamation that he had been looking for the Camp Worker for several days but had been unable to find him. He was most anxious to obtain a vest-pocket Science and Health and to have a conversation along metaphysical lines. Just then another young man approached who also wanted a Science and Health. Then a Y. M. C. A. Worker who was passing by said, ‘Haven't you got one of those little books to give me?’ and added, ‘You know when you and your wife first came to
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