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 in the navy and was an engineer on board the Crecy when she was torpedoed, and all through that trying experience he had felt entire confidence in the power that saved him.

With the opening of the Rooms the increase of interest in Christian Science amongst the civilian population at Tunbridge Wells was very marked and the whole day long, men, women and children were to be seen reading the literature which was attractively displayed in the window. Many came in to ask questions and were sent to the Christian Science Reading Rooms of the local society. The local Scientists themselves feel great gratitude on this account, and know that, although the War Relief Rooms were open only for a short time, they fulfilled their mission.

At Blandford in the county of Dorset, a new camp to accommodate about 18,000 men was opened early in the war and eventually taken over by the Royal Air Force. The camp, which extended over a wide area and was very isolated, included also a large number of the members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and of the Women's Royal Air Force. The good work of a small group of local Christian Scientists culminated in the appointment of the first and only Christian Science Welfare Worker officially permitted to live and work inside a military camp in Great Britain. The advent of the Worker was warmly welcomed by the General in command, who placed a large vacant hut on one of the main roads inside the