ENGLAND'S ANSWER TO THE CALL
bread from house to house, breaking (explaining) it to others” (Science and Health, page 33).
A record of the work in Great Britain and Ireland would not be complete without reference to the splendid literature distribution that has been carried on throughout the country since the early days of the war. This was first made possible through the generosity of the Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy, and later through the War Relief Fund. Quantities of Christian Science literature have been distributed far and wide to the army and navy and in this way have reached the training camps, the Y. M. C. A. huts, the hospitals, the trenches, the fleet on patrol in the North Sea, and the vessels of the mine-sweeping fleet all round the coast. Numbers of letters have been received from men engaged in many widely differing war time vocations in different parts of the world, telling of the timely help and comfort which have so often come to them through the literature. Early in 1917 permission was obtained to send literature regularly to a number of British and Canadian prisoners of war in Germany and to men interned in Holland. Literature has also been supplied to German prisoners of war in internment camps in Great Britain and many of the men who have been repatriated have gone back to Germany with Christian Science literature in their pockets.
In the spring of 1919 it was clearly recognized that the emergency that had brought the War Relief scheme into being was fast disappearing and that much of the splendid work undertaken by the Committees could be transferred to the Christian Science churches and societies. It was felt that the time had
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