CAMP WELFARE COMMITTEE
fully, gave his consent, and sent a guard with me into the stockade. All but four men accepted the book. Then something occurred that never happened there before. Someone found ‘Nearer my God to Thee’ and began to sing it. In less than a minute there was a great male chorus singing that hymn.”
Large numbers of our Song Books were supplied, at their request, to Y. M. C. A. workers, Song Directors, and other persons interested in encouraging the men to sing.
It would, of course, be quite impossible to recount in full the results accomplished by the Christian Science literature sent out by the War Relief Committee, or to quote from even a small number of the letters of gratitude received from recipients of this literature. Let one suffice to show what was done for a soldier in California to whom a copy of the vest-pocket text-book was given by one of our workers.
“I wish to thank the Christian Science Camp Welfare Committee for placing in my hands ‘Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures’ by Mrs. Eddy. I had suffered with kidney trouble for sixteen years and now by studying the little book and asking God to help me I have been healed in thirty days' time.”
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