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walked out of a wood and across a road to where a southern California regiment was encamped and hidden from enemy observation and walked into a soldier whom I had never seen and who was at that moment looking for me.”
After some weeks' service with the 91st, the chaplain was sent back for rest and recuperation, turning over his duties to another Christian Scientist. He returned to this country after the signing of the armistice and has since had his honorable discharge from the army.
Chaplain Jackson was first assigned to Camp Dix, New Jersey, and as it was early designated as an embarkation camp, he requested to be transferred overseas with the men among whom he had been working, the 78th Division. This division arrived in France in August and was at once sent to the firing line, serving forty-two days on the British front, twenty-one days at St. Mihiel and twenty-six days in the Argonne, most of this time under direct fire, although also used for support and subjected only to indirect fire and night air raids. With it went our chaplain. He was assigned to a point located about in the center of the various units of the division. From here he went about at first on foot, then on a bicycle and later in an army car, delivering Christian Science literature, especially the Monitor, to men in the various units and conducting or organizing Christian Science services for our boys. His senior chaplain wrote:
“Allow me to express to you my appreciation of the way you have carried on your work throughout the division. In the face of very great difficulties you have been untiring and successful in getting to your men. You have set a very inspiring example of devotion to the men in the trenches.
“Your task is peculiarly difficult because of the fact that
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