CAMP WELFARE COMMITTEE
given permission to use the dining room or officers' mess. There we found a piano and we had a boy who could play our hymns as well as I ever heard them played. I acted as First Reader and Sergeant X. as Second and we had a fine meeting. The first Sunday out two other sergeants did the reading. We had about fifteen present. Wasn't that fine?
“We are holding services over here near a hospital and most of our audiences are made up of wounded men who are dressed in bathrobes and hobble in on crutches. They sure do love our meetings and it is great for us boys to do our part in reading the lesson-sermons and in carrying on the meetings.”
From somewhere else in France a soldier writes:
“Many thanks for the Quarterlies. We were hoping for some. We started a little service with six present, held in a tent. A fine service it was too. The following Sunday two more were added. We have written to Paris for information as to the proper way to conduct the services. I am so grateful for these meetings and for the friendship of these boys.”
Another writes:
“We had a very nice little service on the ship coming over. Six of us got together in the Y. M. C. A. man's cabin and held it there. Had everything but the hymn and the solo and were all so grateful for the privilege of holding this service in the middle of the sea.”
From the same soldier a little later:
“We had a very nice meeting today in a little village. Went out into the woods and read the lesson and had prayer and the closing parts of the service. Had eight or ten present.”
From Santo Domingo a marine writes:
“I was greatly in need of the books, as we boys have started to hold meetings every Sunday morning and the
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