CAMP WELFARE COMMITTEE
evening a few of our boys on short notice, together with Camp Worker and Welfare Building Attendant, held a little service on a lumber pile, using passages from the Bible and Science and Health as found on page 17 of The First Church of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany, used at the laying of the corner stone of the Extension of The Mother Church.”
This building had a very beautiful setting among the pine trees and one of its features was a long screened-in porch on which were tables supplied with Christian Science literature and writing material. It contained a fine large living room with a fireplace at one end.
At Camp Bowie, Texas, the Committee was able to purchase, at a cost of $1418, a large structure intended for a restaurant. Government regulations did not permit the owner to maintain it within the camp zone and he was very glad to turn it over to our Committee. It was a two-story building with a large auditorium, writing room and Worker's office on the first floor and comfortable living accommodations on the second.
At Camp Lewis, Washington, there were large numbers of Scientists in training. To meet their need for a quiet place in which to study the lesson, two tents were first set up in a grove of trees a mile from the cantonment. Keen with interest in all that concerned the War Relief activities and grateful for the good received therefrom, some forty Christian Science soldiers banded together and within ten days built a small cottage on property that had been secured for the future use of the Welfare Work. This they called home and every nook and corner was dear to them. Many of those who had hitherto spent their week-ends in the city, whiling away the time in worthless amusements, now came in to read and study to their profit.
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