CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
sirable company and had practically broken up the home. He had brought her into town with their children and taken a little house for them, feeling that it would be easier for her to make a fresh start in different surroundings, but he was full of fear on her account. The Worker talked with him and helped him and gave him some literature, promising to go to see his wife. She visited the home next day, talked to the woman and gave her a pamphlet to read. Work was speedily found for her and she is now going on quietly building up her little home again. The Monitor and the Sentinel are sent regularly to the man, and in a recent letter he expressed his deep gratitude for the papers and for the help his family had received.
The Rooms were also used by men from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States, many of whom were either students of Christian Science or had relatives who were. Some of these men had found themselves forced to look into the subject for themselves by the difficulties they encountered in their army experience.
BUXTON
The work opened up next at Buxton, which, before the war, was a fashionable watering-place with numerous hotels and hydropathics situated among the hills of Derbyshire. During the war the nature of the place completely changed, invalids and pleasure-seekers being replaced by many hundreds of men in khaki and hospital blues. Buxton became one of the discharge depots for the Canadian forces, and in particular for married men who, with their wives, awaited
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