UNSELFISH LABOR REWARDED
“After two days on the destroyers we finally arrived back in France, where the lads suffering from exposure and wounds, were sent to the hospital, but not one of the four students of Christian Science aboard our ship was injured in the slightest way. As for myself, I had not even got my feet wet during the entire experience.
“When we landed back in America, after our journey, I soon learned that there was a Christian Science War Relief Room in that port, and it was my greatest desire to secure a new Science and Health, Bible and Quarterly. When I went in one of the Workers, seeing I had not come to write, asked if he could be of any assistance and when I asked for the books and related how I had lost my others, he remarked, ‘It would indeed be a pleasure to give you a new set.’
“All I can say is thanks be to God for this wonderful Truth, for Jesus the Wayshower, and for our beloved Leader.
“Eugene A. Oppenheim,
“Hoboken, New Jersey.”
“I am very appreciative of the broad thought and kindliness
of the Christian Science Board of Directors and all who
supported the Christian Science Camp Welfare Committee
and made this work possible. It has helped the army at
the front. It has helped those in the rear. It has helped in
the camps at home. It has helped the men in the hospitals.
It has shown Christian Science to the world.
“The welfare work in this country was carried on in the most efficient way in order to prepare those seeking help for the great trials and corresponding demonstrations of Truth overseas. This work was done in such a loving manner and the daily visits were so helpful that all of our needs, while in camp, were met. We were supplied with Science and Health and other literature when we needed them most, and were assisted along the paths of Truth by the Workers.
“The Christian Science services were of the greatest benefit,
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