CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
labeled, “Christian Science Camp Welfare Committee,” for it meant the lifting of heavy burdens off their shoulders and an opportunity to find rest the remainder of the way to headquarters.
During the quarantine period in another camp, when the mail accumulated at the Y. M. C. A. hostess house and there was nobody available to keep it going to the post office, in order that the relatives of the men might know how they were faring, the Worker, on the way for his own mail, would stop and get a load of soldiers' mail, and take it to the office, bringing back the mail for the hostess and her assistants.
Again the Worker found time, together with his own great amount of work, to take the parents of men in the hospital from the railway stations to the wards where their boys were to be found. Coming from a section where but little is known of Christian Science or Christian Scientists these relatives and friends have had reason to carry away a friendly memory of the Welfare Worker. Of a Worker in one of the camps in the southeast, an officer spoke feelingly, “The day was never too long nor the night too dark for him to do anybody a good turn.”
Says another Worker:
“This morning as we drove up to the post office for the mail, an army officer approached the car and asked that I drive him back to camp after some important papers that he had left behind. I did so. Later when we arrived at the head of the column we found the lads strung all along the road, overtaxed with their heavy packs, going up the hill. A lieutenant doctor and I worked with them for two hours carrying them up the hill and down to the boat landing. Most of the boys that fell out were from the hospital. I made six trips and then came back after the packs. A hospital ambulance
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