A UNIQUE COMMITTEE
me all that I need; but there is not money enough in this city to buy the love that was expressed in those rooms today.’ Both the father and the mother had previously been opposed to Christian Science, yet the father called upon the Committee the following Monday morning to give us this message, and his acknowledgment of the work done here shows that much more is being accomplished than merely the giving out of knitted garments.”
It was the pleasure of one Committee to provide a neighboring hospital with well-filled comfort bags, made of red, white and blue sateen. At the Thanksgiving dinner they formed the principal table decoration, one being placed at each plate.
It was in another hospital, supplied with comfort bags, that a boy in the tubercular ward said, “We sure need a little brightness in here, and these bags are so bright and pretty.”
Knitted garments, bags, etc., for two hundred men were placed in the care of the chaplain on a ship, to be distributed by him on Christmas day, when the men would be well at sea.
From a southern camp came the following letter:
“Mesdames: I have been so very busy in these last two weeks that until this time I haven't had an opportunity to thank you for that very wonderful kit you sent me. You cannot know what that sweater has meant and will mean during the winter months here. The nights, even at this time of year, have been very cold. And I am using every other thing you sent me—in fact the first button I've had on my clothes, once they are off, can be accredited to the influence of that little sewing kit.
“I have a younger brother who hasn't the nerve to ask for anything in this world except his breakfast, and he's usually hungry—but he's been wondering if you would consider send-
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