WITH THE A. E. F. IN FRANCE
“Insufficient room in this to contain my gratitude.”
“First warm place I've found in France.”
“A mighty cheerful place.”
“Très bien maison.” (A. E. F. French !)
“More like home than anything I've found in ten months.”
In one of their reports the Workers wrote:
“We have proved that love is the universal language. A touching incident of this occurred in the Reading Room recently. A young French boy who has been coming in to read the French-English edition of the textbook and who does not speak a word of English, found expression for his gratitude in actions rather than words. One evening we found him working in the office with the American boys, stamping Christian Science Monitors, and he showed by his beaming countenance that he was thoroughly enjoying the work. At another time when the necessity arose for making a sign in French for the window, he eagerly offered to make one, and it is now in its place.”
The Workers received many letters and telegrams from boys in distant camps and hospitals, desiring treatment or literature. In some instances they responded in person, traveling sometimes several hundred miles by train or motor in order to give the healing message of Truth, or to render some human service which meant so much to the giver and receiver. Early in January the Worker visited a classification and evacuation camp at St. Aignan (a day's journey by motor) to render assistance to a boy who had been waiting six weeks for his Service Record Card to arrive from the Central Records' Office. Upon investigation, the error was uncovered and corrected. The boy in question was thus enabled to leave immediately for an embarkation port. It also released over 2000
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