CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
be posted in conspicuous places. He was not a Scientist but he loved the Monitor and wanted to help Christian Scientists to find our Rooms.
Regular services were soon begun, being held at five o'clock, an hour which seemed to suit the greatest number of men. The boys began to come from far and near, all most grateful to have found the Rooms. One day after the Sunday service a soldier came quietly to the Worker and slipped a hundred-franc note into his hand, “To assist in the work of the Committee,” he said. This was not exceptional, either in this depot, or in others in France. The boys were eager to show their gratitude for the help received in the Christian Science Rooms and our Workers regularly sent to the Paris office sums ranging, in Bordeaux, for instance, as high as 365 francs ($73) a month, representing voluntary donations from men in the service.
As soon as the men began to be aware of the existence of the War Relief Depot our Workers were called upon to send out large quantities of literature and to answer many calls for help. They had also to devote some time to the civilian population for the French themselves began to visit the Rooms, and finding the truth attractive, became regular attendants at the Christian Science services. A French lady in Bordeaux, who had been a student of Christian Science for several years and whose appreciation of the opportunity to attend services was very great, bought a copy of the French-English textbook, donating it to the Room to be loaned as occasion arose. It was immediately loaned and was in constant use ever after. This same lady sent a beautiful potted plant on
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