Editorial May 3, 1941 Issue

Camp Welfare Fund

Editor

The Christian Science Board of Directors announces the opening of a fund for use in carrying on activities for the purpose of promoting the spiritual welfare of Christian Scientists and others who are serving in the army, navy, and air forces of the United States under the present emergency defense plan.

Christian Science Camp Welfare activities are being established by The Mother Church, with offices in the Administration Building, 107 Falmouth Street, Boston, Massachusetts. These activities, undertaken in co-operation with the army and navy chaplains and morale officers, are not intended to be permanent, nor are they intended to displace the similar or same activities which are now carried on for the benefit of men in the permanent or regular United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps. It is contemplated that a Camp Welfare Worker will be avilable for each of the larger camps or forts to assist members of the Christian Science denomination and others to keep in touch with its activities. It is expected also that a welfare room will be maintained near each large camp or fort, where officers and enlisted men may read and study the authorized Christian Science literature in suitable surroundings, and where facilities for writing letters may be furnished. This work will also include provision for Christian Science church services, distribution of the literature, and such other facilities as may further its objective. The Camp Welfare activities contemplate providing also whatever may be warranted by existing circumstances at the smaller stations.

The Christian Science Camp Welfare Fund is now open, and contributions are invited. When these activities are found by The Christian Science Board of Directors to be no longer needed, any balance then remaining in this fund will be transferred to the Relief Fund of The Mother Church, which is expended in accordance with the original announcement of that fund in The Christian Science Monitor of October 11, 1923, and repeated in the Christian Science Sentinel of October 27, 1923, "for charitable and benevolent purposes in any emergency or necessity which may from time to time arise."

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