CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE WAR
there on permission than go to Paris. While the open hours were theoretically from 1.30 to 9.30 p.m., there was no hour of the day or night when any seeker for Truth was not made welcome. For months the day when a guest did not arrive before 8.30 in the morning was rare, and few nights indeed, saw the last reluctant reader leaving the house before 11.30. Many of the younger lads made a practice of coming to the Rooms directly after the evening meal. The first part of the evening they would spend in study, then they would come into the living room to talk with the Workers and other visitors. Later when all readers had departed they would play the piano for they were seldom without a good musician in their midst, and the lads spent many a happy hour listening to good music.
Many hundreds of times the Workers heard the boys say: “This is just like home,” or “Where would we go if we didn't have a home like this?” One boy wrote back from a base port speaking of a disagreeable environment in the camp, “You know, I spent all my spare time at the House and I'd forgotten the manner of conversation which goes on in the barracks.” He mentioned, however, that one of his companions having made an evil remark, at once apologized to him, not because the Science boy gave any outward sign of disapproval, but because he had reflected enough of what he had learned in Science and Health to call forth that recognition.
The French people who came to the meetings seemed much interested in seeing a King James Version of the Bible, and a number of copies of the Bible and Science and Health have gone into homes where they are being studied diligently. The Public Library
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