FINANCIAL STATEMENT
An English soldier sends Christmas greetings:
“I should like to contribute the enclosed as a token this Christmas of my gratitude for all that I owe to Christian Science during the last five years.”
“Before they call I will answer”:
“I am enclosing a small contribution to the War Relief and Camp Welfare Fund. I wish to assure you that I appreciate this great work for the soldiers. I wrote you that my son was in a hospital in France, hoping you could send help to him, but already your Workers had visited him, as he said, bringing joy and hope. They supplied him with Monitors, Sentinels and Journals and gave him free treatment.”
From an eyewitness of our work:
“It gives me great pleasure, in which my wife joins me, to send our little mite to the fund that is doing such wonderful work. We had the privilege of visiting several training camps in the south and southwest and it filled our hearts with joy to see the Camp Welfare hut and automobiles carrying the Truth to all. We have seen several soldiers lying on the ground reading the little vest-pocket edition of Science and Health by our Leader.”
Upon receiving word from France:
“Please accept my most heartfelt thanks for your efficient and comforting work with regard to my brother. I was told by a member of the Home Service of the Red Cross that the reply was in her experience almost unprecedented in its quickness. You will find enclosed a check for ten dollars, five of which is to pay for the cable and the other as a thank offering.”
True reciprocity from a soldier in the American Expeditionary Forces:
“I am sending subscription price for all Christian Science periodicals, the Christian Science Quarterly, and Science and
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