CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
cluded, besides our American boys, French, Belgian, Hungarian and Russian attendants.
Of civilian inquirers our Workers said:
“We have had some very interesting experiences with French, Belgian and Russian investigators of Christian Science. During the first four months nearly two hundred inquirers presented themselves. Some of these proved to be earnest students and had interesting demonstrations, many times entirely through the study of Science and Health. These have endured, and in one instance at least, the student is proving his faith by healing others.”
As elsewhere, our Workers had many requests for treatment. A man born in Russian Tartary and raised a Mohammedan, spent many hours each day studying Science and Health in the Reading Room. He reported that a skin disease of long standing had been healed completely since the truth contained in Science and Health had been revealed to him and he had applied its teachings. A young Frenchman reported that he had been healed of melancholia, which had beset his path all his life, and that he was most happy in this understanding of the phantasmal nature of evil.
One very interesting case of healing was that of a young captain, who after a night of great pain, found himself unable to move when it came time to report to his colonel for some special duty. A doctor was called, who after examination stated that the captain's appendix had burst and it was impossible to do anything for him. A friend had already been sent to request Christian Science treatment for the captain and shortly after the doctor's visit the War Relief Worker arrived. The pain left almost at once and the
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