CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
being brought into action. Boys who went over the top carried no pack or blanket but upon gaining their objective, many a boy made a bed of a Christian Science Monitor to sleep on until supplies and relief could be brought up. During bombardment, if in the daytime, to take a Christian Science Monitor and quietly sit down by the roadside and read did much to stabilize the men of the command; if at night to hum or whistle the air from one of our Leader's hymns had the same effect.
Chaplain Dickey was first assigned to Camp Upton, New York. After a month's sojourn here he was transferred to Camp Lee, Virginia, where the 80th Division was in training. When the Division went overseas in July, the chaplain accompanied it. They spent the month of August at the front with the British army just north of Amiens. Here the chaplain did a good work in supplying Monitors to the front line troops—always finding them eager to receive the paper which brought them news of home. He was transferred in September to duty with the 91st Division, said to contain more Christian Scientists than any other one division, estimates ranging up to 1200 men. These troops were just being sent into active service and our chaplain, of course, accompanied them, endeavoring to keep in touch with his men as much as the rapid movement of the troops permitted. That he was indeed in the right place at the right time the following from one of his letters will indicate:
“Only recently I walked into a hospital to see a lieutenant who was very ill, and who was just making preparations to wire me for help. As far as he knew I was miles from his station. He had a splendid healing. On another occasion, I
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