A UNIQUE COMMITTEE
“I am with the 306th Machine Gun Battalion, Company B, and I am going to make it a point to visit your Committee in person as soon as I get back home, and thank the ladies for their ceaseless efforts in behalf of the young men who are just starting on their military careers.
“Trusting that this visit may be in the very near future, I am
“Respectfully yours.”
In the matter of individual distribution on the other side, our Canadian sisters naturally led the way, their work having commenced with the beginning of the war. Although their activities were quite distinct from those of the Comforts Forwarding Committee of the United States, the following account from Toronto shows the same animating spirit, proving again that Truth is one and indivisible, and unified in the qualities expressing it. It is a pleasure to incorporate here this incomplete story of what was accomplished by some of our neighbor Scientists:
“Our activity grew from an Overseas Box Committee organized by members of First and Third Churches of Christ, Scientist, Toronto, in the early part of the war, and which eventually became a very prominent activity of the Comforts Forwarding Committee, consisting of sending individual boxes of food and comforts to approximately one hundred soldiers a month. In this list were many American residents who had enlisted in the Canadian army. We sent our last shipment in October, 1918, to our full list of boys, for Christmas, numbering between three and four hundred. In acknowledgment of this work we continually received letters of gratitude, from boys not only in England and France, but far-away Russia; also from a group of five Belgian soldiers whose desperate need became known to a member of our Committee.
“A company of two hundred men for the Siberian Expeditionary Force were supplied, each with a sleeveless jacket
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