CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
practical way to all mankind. The universal language is its own interpreter. The decision was quickly reached, the last doubt silenced, and every woman was free to express in some measure her sympathy.
Every great movement lies first in embryo, in an expanding area of human consciousness, until its necessity find utterance through someone fitted to express it. Such an one invited to her home ten other Scientists, each making there a sample garment which she took to her own home, together with material for one hundred and ten similar garments. Her home became the meeting-place for another unit of ten, of which she was the captain, each of whom took her garment, together with material for ten more, to her home, where she became the captain of still another unit. In this simple way, quietly, unostentatiously, one thousand one hundred and ten new garments could be turned out each week; and as the more expensive material of one week was offset by a simpler one the next, the weekly individual payment of twenty-five cents covered, in the beginning, the cost of production.
Widening activities necessitated larger headquarters, and the ground floor and basement at 328 Boylston Street were rented. This was a thrilling moment for the women. Right in the midst of the city's business interests, on an attractive corner of an attractive street, they were to open a place which in every detail should manifest to the world just how Christian Science is operative in human affairs. Still mindful of the object for which they were working, they could make the scene of their activities a gladsome spot to the heavily burdened business men, to the sobered women shoppers, to the workers in other
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