TIMELY RECOGNITION
was closed by quarantine. Of the opening of this room
the chaplain wrote as follows:
“On Sunday, September 29, we held the first service in the Rooms. We had a sweet and simple service in accordance with the Manual. At the invitation of the Welfare Workers I acted as First Reader and Mrs. S. as Second.
“This is the first Christian Science service ever held in Inverness, the largest town in northern Scotland, and of course we know that this first public declaration of the Truth is the most important thing that has ever happened in this ancient town.”
When the armistice was signed and the fleet inspected previous to its departure for home, the Christian Scientists were interested to hear that the health record of their squadron was the finest that had ever been known for any organization, naval or military. On board the U. S. S. Roanoke, also, not a single case of influenza was reported during the epidemic.
Before sailing for America, the Christian Science chaplain conducted a party of some twenty men to London. These American lads were guests at the Christian Science Welfare House at 112 Eaton Square and received a welcome which they will probably never forget. On the home trip the U. S. S. Roanoke was rammed in a fog off the coast of Newfoundland, and although laden with TNT, the mines had been moved the day previous from the very spot where the boat was struck. She was able to make her port in safety and sailed into Hampton Roads in December, 1918.
Chaplain Davis was later transferred to the U. S. S. Supply, which was the flagship of the Train Atlantic Fleet, whose duty it is to supply the Grand Fleet with all of its necessities. Christian Science services were
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