CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
that any further advance would be postponed. The following morning as we were forming for the attack, the armistice had been signed.”
After the cessation of hostilities the 91st Division followed the Germans through Belgium as far as Brussels, later returning to France to the embarkation area near Le Mans to await transportation to America. During this time our chaplain was very active on behalf of his men and established Christian Science soldiers' reading rooms at the following places in Belgium: Hoorbeke-St-Corneille, Muelebeke, Herzele on the Franco-Belgian border and at Nogent-le-Bernard in France. The rooms were maintained as long as the army remained in these cities and were always the headquarters for Christian Scientists. Books marked for the lesson-sermon of the current week, and scriptural selections and hymns to further complete the service were always available. A set was always kept marked for the following week for the reason that from ten to twenty-five Christian Science services a week conducted by the men themselves were at one time being held in the 91st Division. The necessity for completely preparing the lesson is apparent and although readings for an entire service were at their disposal, the men often worked out new selections for themselves. These boys were also organized by the chaplain into what was called the “91st Division Literature Distribution Committee,” which, as its name implies, made each Science boy a committee through whom our literature reached those who were ready for it.
Under the direction of the chaplain also what was known as a “Welfare Outfit” was organized and conducted. This consisted of a canteen, a three-chair
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