CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
Science periodicals were placed in the reading and recreation rooms of such organizations as the Y. M. C. A., Red Cross, Jewish Welfare Board, Salvation Army, etc. Possibly some statistics showing approximately the amount of Monitor distribution made by this Committee, will prove of interest at this point. In France and England the Monitor was sent out in much the same way as in the United States, through Workers and War Relief Depots, although necessarily many men had to be reached individually.
The following figures are for September, October and November, 1918, the three most active months of the Committee's existence:
September, 1918 | |
England | 159,255 |
France | 45,689 |
United States and Canada | 936,840 |
United States, Canada and Europe, total | 1,141,784 |
October, 1918 | |
England | 128,316 |
France | 65,250 |
United States and Canada | 1,088,541 |
United States, Canada and Europe, total | 1,282,107 |
November, 1918 | |
England | 113,876 |
France | 67,855 |
United States and Canada | 864,008 |
United States, Canada and Europe, total | 1,045,739 |
For those who receive their copies of the Monitor regularly, it is difficult to realize the joy and enthusiasm which a single copy of our newspaper
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