Adaptability

From p. 118 of Christian Science Wartime Activities (WWI): The Camp Welfare Workers were sent forth with instructions to train the young Scientists to stand on their own feet where church services were concerned. This would prepare them for possibly greater isolation later across the Atlantic.

Simple organizations were formed in some of the big camps, with the Manual of The Mother Church as the guide, and with Readers chosen to be in those positions till their term of service was done. 

This plan proved admirably efficient in its workings, until departure for overseas drew near. Then, as nobody knew which troops would leave first or whether either of the regularly chosen Readers would be able to be present for the next meeting, every Christian Scientist participating in the work in the camp came to service prepared to substitute for one or the other of the readers (p. 120).

How well those servicemen (and women) must have studied the Bible Lessons to be able to stand in at the last minute if necessary.

And how about this:

There were times even in camps in this country when our boys found themselves without a room in which to assemble. In one such instance, a little group of men went down to a clump of trees near a railroad track, piled railroad ties against two saplings to make a desk, the readers hung their hats in the trees, the congregation sat on other ties and the service began. It was a wonderful day, with the blue sky overhead, the sun only an hour high, and the birds, the blossoms and the trees adding their paeans of praise to the hymns that arose from the little grove. That service, in its earnestness and spiritual fervor, made a lasting impression on all who participated.

Page 133 introduced the vest-pocket edition of Science and Health.

Page 134 brings a direct reference to Mary Baker Eddy:

"One of my shipmates was sent a vest-pocket edition of the textbook. I have been reading it with deep interest and wish to own one, hence my letter. "I enlisted from Boston but was brought up and went to school in Concord, New Hampshire, where Mrs. Eddy once lived. As a little boy I used to romp and play close by her home, Pleasant View, and I still remember her kind sweet face as she would ride by in her carriage. Sometimes she would even give us children a ride."

Joyce Voysey