CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
of recovery. He asked a Y. M. C. A. worker to find a Christian Science practitioner, as he wanted to try Christian Science as a last resort. The War Relief Worker at once visited him and gave him the help he needed, with the result that he was relieved of pain for the first time since he had been wounded. He has gone on steadily and is now buoyant with hope and cheery with gratitude, gaining strength daily.
BELFAST
The War Relief Committee for county Antrim in Ireland, reported in the autumn of 1918 that a large number of troops were stationed in and around the town of Belfast, and that there were no less than fifteen camps within easy reach of the town, filled with English and Scottish troops, all the Irish troops having been withdrawn on account of the Sinn Fein disturbances. The ground had been well prepared for the establishment of a War Relief Room by the very thorough distribution of literature on the docks among the war and merchant ships, and throughout the camps. Passes were obtained giving entrance to every part of the docks on both sides of the river, even to the sections where men were working at high pressure, building war ships and repairing and camouflaging boats. The need for a War Relief Room became still more evident with the appearance of the American men-of-war in Belfast harbor. Whenever the broad-brimmed cap of the American sailor was seen in the streets of Belfast, the Workers set off to the docks to find the ship and supply it with Christian Science literature. Many of the military hospitals in
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