CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
certain marine had been gassed. His family, who were Scientists, requested treatment for him if he desired it and also deposited ten dollars to be delivered to him with a copy of the vest-pocket textbook. On August 14 we were able to telegraph his family that our Paris office had cabled his condition as much improved. A letter which followed in due course said that a sergeant, a Christian Scientist, in this boy's own company, had been put in touch with him, that he had received his money and the textbook and was improving.
At another time when help was requested for a seriously wounded soldier, on November 1, 1918, our Paris office reported on November 15 that he was receiving treatment and was doing well.
Our Committee in England likewise gave us loving cooperation in such cases. In reply to a cable sent them about a man in an English hospital, they cabled that he was improving, following their report by a letter which read:
“On receipt of your cable asking that Private T. should be visited at Bethnal Green Hospital, we got in touch with a practitioner who went at once to see him, and found that he had been badly wounded in the arm and was most anxious to see a Christian Scientist. Treatment was given him, and he wrote next day saying that there was great improvement and that he felt much encouraged and supported through the loving thought of the committee in Boston, which had been instrumental in meeting his need.”
Literally hundreds of calls of such a nature came to our Committee, and as our faithful workers proved so helpful in securing the information desired, the volume of the work increased proportionately. Very many requests came from those who were not Chris-
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