CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
others who had been delayed for the same reason, another proof that “whatever blesses one blesses all.” (Science and Health, page 206.)
In another report our Workers write:
“It has been interesting to learn how divine Love has led the boys to find the Reading Rooms or to write for help. One boy who had been in a near-by hospital for several weeks told of his demonstration. As he lay on his cot, he took up the thought of the Vine and its branches, using the 15th chapter of John. He said he likened the Vine to The Mother Church. Being a member of this church, he knew he was also one with its branches and all its branch activities and could not be separated from them; and he knew that divine Mind would reveal to him the way to find a practitioner. For several days nothing unfolded, but he continued faithful in his metaphysical work. Then one day his nurse brought him a Paris edition of the New York Herald, wherein he found the list of the Christian Science War Relief Depots in France. He immediately wrote to the Committee at Nevers and is now with the Army of Occupation in Germany.”
Of the French, our Workers wrote as follows:
“During the past month, numbers of French soldiers have been returning to their homes to take up their normal activities. Several have visited our Rooms, telling us that they had learned about Christian Science from their comrades at the front. French-English editions of Science and Health were sold to four of these soldiers and they were also supplied with Le Héraut de Christian Science.
“A young Frenchman who has been attending our services since the opening of the rooms, recently purchased through the Committee a French translation of the Bible and the textbook. He studies the Lesson-Sermons from Le Héraut.
“A vest-pocket edition of the textbook was sold to a Frenchwoman who had been a regular attendant at our serv-
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