Article July 19, 1952 Issue

Camp Welfare Activities

The following experiences concerning servicemen and servicewomen have been sent to the Camp Welfare Activities Department and are being shared with the Field:

Upon being invited to accept opportunities to serve in group activities of Christian Scientists at his station overseas, an officer told the Christian Science Camp Welfare Worker that the group "does not need me half so much as I need the support and healing atmosphere of Christian Science." This officer began to mix with the other members of the group and soon placed his books on Christian Science in plain sight in his room. He previously had kept them in a dresser drawer. A young man who came to visit this officer occasionally saw the books and told the officer he also was a student of Christian Science. Later he too became a member of the group.

An Army officer had been taken to the stations hospital and placed in an oxygen tent with a condition diagnosed as a heart ailment. A Camp Welfare Worker was called by the officer's family to give Christian Science treatment. Almost immediately a change in the man's condition was noticed. The day following, the officer was out of the tent and having lunch sitting up in bed. Treatments were continued, and release from the hospital came within a three-week period. During the confinement the hospital doctor told the officer there was no need to try to diagnose further, since he was getting well so fast. The next month the officer was sent back to duty completely healed and soon went on a business trip out of the state.

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