Items of Interest

Now and then Christian Science churches in the United States hold services at Civilian Conservation Corps Camps, and with success. Two churches in western Massachusetts have alternated in doing this at a near-by camp. At the first service about fifty boys came from their tents and listened with pleasure. Some had never heard a Christian Science service before, some asked when the Readers would come again, while one said a great many of the boys felt they should attend a church service every Sunday. In California, upon receiving an invitation to hold Christian Science services at a camp twenty miles away, a Christian Science society sent Readers, who took a few copies of the Christian Science Hymnal and of the Quarterly. The books were not nearly sufficient for the number who were eager to participate in the singing and responsive reading, "but the boys huddled in bunches and did very well indeed. The attention was perfect and quiet prevailed." Thanked for coming, the Readers were asked when they would come again; and they left, feeling well repaid for the effort, and knowing that the boys interested in Christian Science had been strengthened, and the others had heard some new and usable truths.

Occasionally an anonymous letter reaches the Directors of The Mother Church from a person who believes that the Board can remedy some situation the writer inadequately describes. If the writer is mistaken in his written conclusions, as is often the case, the Directors have no opportunity to write a helpful reply. At any rate, a statement which a writer will not authenticate with his signature is of no value and has no weight. Indeed, the sending of anonymous letters is generally not considered reputable. Writers of letters to the Directors can be sure that if they wish their identity as correspondents held confidential, a request to that effect, added to their letters, will insure the confidence.

A Christian Scientist wrote the following to the Treasurer of The Mother Church about reading an Item of Interest in the Sentinel of December 23, 1933, on the need for more support for the charitable institutions of our movement: "I listened to the argument in my thought that I could not give financial aid; but on reading the same Item in the March (1934) Journal, I answered this false argument with the declaration, All things come of Thee, O Lord, and of Thine own have I given Thee; and inclose my mite."

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