CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
Christian Science representative, for they evidently included him as one of them and recognized no mental barriers.
“From here a call was made at the base hospital to see a young man who, materia medica had said, ‘had slim chances.’ The Worker had been directed to this young man a few days before by someone who had been interested in him. The patient was not a Scientist and said he did not think he cared to have Science treatment, but that he would like the Worker to call again. Today he met the Worker with a beaming face and said, ‘I feel like a different man. Your talk the other day almost healed me, and so I want a copy of Science and Health and a testament. I never felt so happy before, and feel sure I will soon be out of the hospital.’
“Several other calls were made at the hospital and two copies of Science and Health were given out. Then the out-going troop trains were visited as soon as they were located, and the Worker placed 400 Monitors on them—Monitors which had been left over from his daily delivery because of a delay in their arrival, so that eight hundred had been received on this day. He waited until the troops were loaded and the trains started. As the men waved their farewells many had the Monitors in their hands and others were reading them.
“And now as the day is almost over, the Worker drives over to the Welfare Cottage and the men soon begin to arrive for an evening's visit—a colonel, a lieutenant, two ‘non-coms’ and several privates, five of whom desire treatment. While the treatments are given in an adjoining room, those waiting visit together and tell of the blessings that Christian Science has brought into their lives. At about ten thirty they begin to leave. Then correspondence and records are attended to and the work for the next day considered. Thus ends at midnight one of the happiest days of the Worker's experience, and he thanks God for His goodness to the sons of men.”
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