With the coming of peace, the activities which have been supported by the Christian Science Wartime Fund are naturally lessening. Expenditures from this Fund are at present about two thirds as great as a year ago. They will continue to decrease as the servicemen and servicewomen return home and resume their places in normal civilian life. By the end of this year we estimate that the expenditures from the Wartime Fund will have declined to approximately one third of the peak of 1944.
The branch churches and societies, as well as individual contributors, may wish to reduce their gifts to the Christian Science Wartime Fund in proportionate measure. As soon as the time arrives when the Fund can be closed, this will be announced through the Christian Science periodicals. Any unexpended balance in the Fund upon final completion of our wartime work will, in accordance with the announcement made in the Christian Science Sentinel of February 14, 1942, be transferred to the Relief Fund of The Mother Church to be used for relief purposes in emergencies which may arise.
We are deeply grateful to all who have contributed to the Wartime Fund of The Mother Church. Their unselfishness and liberality have been an inspiration to everyone who has had a part in this work. The fruitage has been great. It continues to unfold. Thousands of Christian Scientists in the armed forces of the Allied Nations have been healed, strengthened, encouraged, or comforted. Many others have become earnest students of Christian Science. There is still a good deal to do before the armed forces are demobilized. There is also much to be done to help Christian Scientists in the war areas to re-establish their church services and Reading Rooms, and to replace copies of the Bible and the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, which have been confiscated or destroyed in Germany and other countries. Our Leader's words have been richly exemplified in our widespread wartime work (Science and Health, p. 518): "The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good."
