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ices. She has recently left for Algiers to take up her vocation of teaching.
“A French officer who had been disabled sent a relative to the Reading Rooms for literature. He had learned of Chris- tian Science from an American soldier in the trenches.
“Another sale of the French-English Science and Health was made to a Frenchwoman living in an adjacent town. She had read Le Heraut and pamphlets which she procured at our Rooms. She wanted to investigate the subject further, .together with her sister who was suffering with a disease which the doctors diagnosed as incurable. In response to an urgent letter, one of the Workers made a special trip to deliver the textbook and found a very grateful family ready to receive it.
“A few days before Christmas,” says our Worker, “a captain of a hospital unit which had just arrived at Mars called at our rooms in Nevers to inquire if we could provide him with any knitted goods or clothing for his patients. He said that his experience with the Christian Science organization in the States led him to assume that he would be taken care of with dispatch by our overseas representatives, hence his call. In less than twenty-four hours after the receipt of our wire, the Paris Committee secured a quantity of clothing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Committee in Paris and sent us a trunkful, which was distributed to the hospital unit the day before Christmas.”
The evacuation of the camps in the Nevers district was very rapid and the need for War Relief work diminished to such an extent that it was deemed advisable to close the Reading Rooms on April 1, 1919. To quote again from our Workers' final report:
“The benediction used at our last service very appropriately concludes the work in this city. ‘For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth.’ ”
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