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 by the government. I have chosen to take my college course through a careful and thorough study of the Monitor. The educational value of the paper is wonderful, covering as it does, in an intelligent way, the sum total of human activities, as well as containing a summary of the highest type of ancient and modern literature. Does not the Monitor whose tutor is Principle furnish us the most wonderful college course we can take in these times? I surely am grateful for the privilege and opportunity of reading it.”

The other periodicals were also widely distributed, though not in any such quantity as the Monitor, and were sent naturally to those who had expressed a desire for the religious teaching of Christian Science. From a lieutenant in a southern camp we received the following:

“A copy of the Christian Science Sentinel mailed by someone to the cantonments of the National Army was handed to me at my barracks and it has afforded me a large measure of interest and pleasure to pore over its pages.

“I have been for some time casually interested in Christian Science and would like to become better acquainted with it. Please place me on your mailing list.”

From Vladivostok a prisoner wrote:

“I have got by accident an old number of The Christian Science Journal in which I have read surprising things. Desiring to know the Christian Science please send me any number of your Journals and pamphlets. . . . I am a Hungarian and have learnt English in my imprisonment, and so I beg your pardon for the incorrectness of my letter. I know German better but I think to write English more proper.” A subscription to Le Héraut de Christian Science was sent in response to the following letter from a French soldier: