CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
bounds. Monitors were supplied to troop trains leaving for the front and to ships returning to the States. “Y” huts, Red Cross stations, hospitals, military camps, Officers' Clubs, the American Commissary Department, hotels, barber shops, restaurants and many other places received the Monitor, an average of 400 a week being distributed in this way. There was also a large demand for textbooks, Bibles, Quarterlies and the other periodicals.
Our Worker presented the Mayor of St. Nazaire with a check for 2500 francs on behalf of the Committee for the relief of war sufferers. Shortly afterwards there appeared in one of the leading newspapers a notice from which we quote in part:
“In the list of subscriptions collected is a gift of 2500 francs given by the Christian Science War Relief Committee whose main office is at 3 Avenue de l'Opéra, Paris.
“This Committee maintains an office at St. Nazaire at 130 rue Ville-es-Martin, managed by Miss B.
“Its benevolent action, which is extended to all who suffer from hostilities, is manifested in the form of help in money and supplies.
“The municipality has expressed its hearty thanks to the generous donors whose act will permit it to relieve some misfortunes.”
As in other places, the Rooms became a home to the Science boys and as was fitting, a home dinner was served on Thanksgiving Day to about twenty persons. Even the chef and his assistants were Scientists. It was a real Thanksgiving feast with turkey and “all the fixins',” as the boys put it.
Christmas also did not pass without observance. Two large trees were secured through the efforts of the boys, and the Y. M. C. A. furnished a box of
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