CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
In an Oregon report we read:
“As a direct result of the Spruce Camp work one new Christian Science Society has been formed and reported to us. Undoubtedly there are others formed as neighborhood groups that conduct a regular service in the way that so many societies start, but which we have no means of knowing about. We cannot help feeling very sure that growth along this line will be externalized in the future out in the smaller places in our thinly peopled state.”
In Hattiesburg, Mississippi, there had been no organized Christian Science services. Our Worker at Camp Shelby wrote us in June, 1918:
“It is indeed a privilege to be able to inform you that during the past week the writer has been of service to the Christian Scientists here in Hattiesburg in getting them together for organized work. This morning we held the first Sunday morning service with an attendance of at least twenty, in the home of one of the Scientists and it was much appreciated by all.”
When the War Relief work at that camp was closed the Committee Room was turned over to the little group of local workers. They were presented with the books used in the Reading Room and purchased the furniture and fittings at a nominal sum. They wrote:
“Through the spiritual uplift and encouragement thus realized we are going forward and shall, thanks to your great kindness, continue to keep the room in the Carter Building and meet there on Sundays and Wednesdays and every day in the Reading Room. The money for the furnishings has all been raised and was mailed to you day before yesterday. For this help, and also for the set of fourteen volumes, we thank you many, many times. The good seed has been sown here and, in appreciation, we shall endeavor
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