CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
NEWSPAPER COMMENT ON HALIFAX EXPEDITION
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS DO RELIEF WORK
Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, December 17, 1917
Editor Nonpareil:—Splendid work was done by the Christian Scientists of Boston in rushing aid to the stricken city of Halifax. Finding no through train from Boston available on Saturday, the day of the recent disaster in that city, representatives of the church arranged for a special train which left Boston in a storm, but outran it, and speeded northward carrying aid to the Halifax sufferers in the shape of clothing and supplies as well as $10,000 in cash and letters of credit.
When it became known in Boston that this special train had been arranged for, other relief workers asked permission to take passage on it, which was readily granted and thirty or forty Red Cross workers and physicians with supplies accompanied the Scientists.
A collection taken Sunday in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston amounted to $4693.04. There was no time to give notice in advance of this collection. Collections were also arranged by many of the branch churches, which have not yet been reported.
Post, Chicago, Illinois, December 13, 1917
Boston, December 13.—The presence of doctors and nurses on board a Christian Science special seems a strange contradiction. Yet it happened on the relief train sent by the Christian Science Board of Directors here to the immediate succor of Halifax. It became known today that the Directors chartered a special in order to rush thru $10,000 contributed in cash and thousands of dollars' worth of food and warm clothing. As the train was being made up, city
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