CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
TUNBRIDGE WELLS
Distribution of Christian Science literature had been steadily carried on during the war amongst the soldiers stationed at Tunbridge Wells in the county of Kent, and in the spring of 1919, efforts were made to obtain premises for a War Relief Room. The same conditions obtained here as in the other towns, namely, that all available places were under the control of the military authorities who would not release them, but at last suitable rooms were secured and opened late in March.
The first case of healing in the Rooms was that of a man who had been badly hurt by a kick in his side at football. He asked for Christian Science treatment, and came back to the Rooms two hours later to say that all was well, and there was no occasion for any more work to be done for him.
A soldier who had been in similar rooms at Newcastle and Ripon, came in and after writing a letter, stated that he anticipated spending most of his afternoons there reading Science and Health. He expressed much gratitude for the good he had received in the War Relief Rooms, and said how very much he had been helped to overcome bad habits.
A corporal came in one day and gave an excellent account of the support Science had been to him in France. He told how he had been able to hearten men who were to go “over the top” and how many a time—in the tightest places—he and all his men had come back safe, which he attributes entirely to his knowledge of Christian Science and that of the numerous Scientists among his men. He had been origi-
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