CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
man present was a patient in the hospital,—in all about one hundred and ten.
“Most of them, doubtless, had never attended a Christian Science service or even read Christian Science literature, yet they were very attentive and entered into the singing with a splendid spirit, and throughout the entire service there was no disturbance whatsoever.”
At Camp Jackson, as elsewhere, our Worker was requested by the officer in charge of the stockade to conduct a Christian Science service. This was arranged for and the lesson read the first time to about twenty prisoners.
In a German prison camp in Tennessee some forty prisoners of war had been conducting a service in German until the visit of a Camp Welfare Worker. Thereafter it was read in English and in a most creditable manner.
Nothing has yet been said of the meetings held in literally hundreds of places where there was no Camp Worker to supervise and where the men themselves took the entire responsibility for the conduct of the services. In this country they were sometimes brought together through the activity of a visiting Worker. In the border camps in Texas, for instance, this was done in a number of cases. One man who was designated as a “soldier worker” wrote the following interesting letter:
“A few days ago I received a copy of Science and Health, a Manual of The Mother Church and a Bible, direct from the Camp Welfare Committee in Boston. I take this opportunity to convey to you the thanks of a number of boys in this camp who are interested in Christian Science. With the kind help of a Camp Welfare Worker we have been able to come together and are now holding Christian Science services
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