CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
With the permission of the Brigadier-General in command, our first woman worker in France went to Langres in March, 1918, although all civilians were strictly barred from this sector, which was in the advance zone. The rest of the story of the activity at Langres is quoted from one of her reports:
“We held services in the Officers' Club during the months
of April and May. In the meantime I had been looking for a
permanent place for our room, but as Langres is such a
small city and was so crowded with American officers and
soldiers, it seemed to be a difficult thing to find any suitable
place. Finally a vacant building was found which the ‘Y’
had formerly used, but which had stood idle for some months.
I secured the large front room on the upper floor. This building
is situated on rue Diderot, the main street of Langres,
just across from the Grand Hôtel de l'Europe. The room had
four large windows on the front which made it bright and
cheery and was furnished in light colors, blue and yellow.
We had large wicker chairs, two handsome carved tables for
the literature, a good piano, a large davenport, other smaller
chairs, and white writing tables. The woodwork was white;
we kept the floors polished, and through the summer the room
was filled with flowers. Many tired soldier boys, just back
from battle, would come in, sink down with a sigh, look
around and say: ‘Oh, it is so clean, so like home. It's the
prettiest place in France.’"
“The Monitor was placed in the wards of the big hospital, the Commanding Officer saying that he was delighted to have it, and the head nurse, who has a copy of Science and Health and attends our services, took charge of its distribution. Bundles of Monitors were tied up and placed on the piano in our room, so that a man coming in could help himself. And the small copies of Science and Health—how the boys did love them and how eager they were to get them—also the Bibles.
“We held our Sunday service at 2.30 in the afternoon, as
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