. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. Salvation Army 261 ers recognized these potent factors in strengtlien-ing faith and building hope. The meetings werewell attended and did great good. While hutment work and the cooking of dough-nuts and coffee will remain always as the popularidea of the field of endeavor of the Salvation Armyin France, in reality it did very much more. Itsworkers cashed the soldiers pay checks withoutquestion and sent home over $300,000 withoutcharge. They took care of the lads keepsakes whenthe orders came to go over the top, and in everyhut ther
. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. Salvation Army 261 ers recognized these potent factors in strengtlien-ing faith and building hope. The meetings werewell attended and did great good. While hutment work and the cooking of dough-nuts and coffee will remain always as the popularidea of the field of endeavor of the Salvation Armyin France, in reality it did very much more. Itsworkers cashed the soldiers pay checks withoutquestion and sent home over $300,000 withoutcharge. They took care of the lads keepsakes whenthe orders came to go over the top, and in everyhut there were barrels or boxes of these intimatetreasures that in many cases were forwarded tomother when her boy made the great sacrifice andwent west. The lassies went from hospital to hospital andfrom ward to ward, talking to the wounded, alwayscarrying them fruit and candy and filling every re-quest, no matter how extraordinary it were spent in trying to buy a particular kindof tooth paste for a lad whose nerves were torn toshreds by shell shock. I
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