CAMP WELFARE COMMITTEE
camp I wondered how you had ever taken up with such a thing as I thought Christian Science to be. Then I watched you and your work, and it seemed to me that you had something that others did not have, and the first thing I knew I wished I could know something more about Christian Science from the standpoint of the Christian Scientist himself. I read some of the Monitors that I found in the hut, and then, as you will remember, I had an hour's talk with you one day. During the talk a burn on my hand was healed, and now I really want to read Science and Health.’ Then followed another talk of a half hour or so, and a Science and Health was given to the Secretary, who proved to be an Episcopalian minister.
“Starting on his way, the Camp Worker remembered that a man in the Fire Station a block away had inquired for him, so this was the next call, which lasted some time, and after a most interesting talk another Science and Health was given to the interested beginner. From here the Worker went to the barracks to deliver Monitors to all the officers in the regiment.
“After this he sought an interview with a certain Colonel who had been none too courteous at a previous call when consent had been given to distribute the Monitor to only fifteen out of his two hundred officers. Good work had been done in the meantime however, and thus the interview was pleasant and profitable, and arrangements were made to send the paper daily for a month to each of his two hundred officers. Having carefully read various articles in the Monitor the hour before, the Worker was able to point out to the Colonel the vital things in the copies which he showed him.
“It was noon and time to go to the Hostess House, where the Worker was to take lunch with four Y. M. C. A. Secretaries, as a member of the committee for making plans to take a religious census of the new recruits. It was a source of gratification to see the kindly and respectful attitude of the Y. M. C. A. Workers towards any ideas presented by the
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