American messenger . ain service as the units overhere are frequently broken up and scatteredover a wide territory in more than a half dozencamps, which prevents the chaplain from hold-ing the services for the boys as he would. Insuch cases when he found the secretary to bean ordained man the chaplain would ask himto conduct the services. Our best service wasthe Communion Service. Officers and privatescame in great numbers to pledge their loyaltyto the Great Captain and to receive that com-munion of the broken body and shed blood, andgreatly did they appreciate the privilege. Wemade quite a bi
American messenger . ain service as the units overhere are frequently broken up and scatteredover a wide territory in more than a half dozencamps, which prevents the chaplain from hold-ing the services for the boys as he would. Insuch cases when he found the secretary to bean ordained man the chaplain would ask himto conduct the services. Our best service wasthe Communion Service. Officers and privatescame in great numbers to pledge their loyaltyto the Great Captain and to receive that com-munion of the broken body and shed blood, andgreatly did they appreciate the privilege. Wemade quite a bit of Mothers Day, and thatbrought the men out in great numbers. Most ofthe camps would be without these ministries,were it not for the Y. M. C. A. men, traveling salesmen, and otherclasses of men conduct these services in thehuts, for the secretary is a man of many linesof activity. Whether he ever led a meetingbefore matters not. and out of the necessities 168 American Messenger. November, of the hour the Y men are becoming ableworkers who will make their impress upon thechurches back home where they were attendantsbefore and will hereafter be able to take activepart in the work from the training which wasforced upon them here. But my impression of the value of the Yis not derived so much from the services whichthe secretaries or other workers hold in thehuts and tents as from the general living outof an interpretation of the life of Jesus as oneof unselfish service for others. The secretaries and the Y places are serv-ing the men in every way possible, from supply-ing their need for chocolate to that of a friendwho will listen to their tale of woe concerningthe way the best girl back home does notwrite as she should, which may involve eventhe writing of a letter for him to her. Itsupplies the movies and the athletic games andother entertainments that occupy the dull hoursand make life livable under these circumstances. Here in the town of Nevers, t
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