HANDS ACROSS THE SEA
The Chairman of the Zurich Committee writes:
“I am sure our American friends who contributed to the fund will be pleased that they have been able to help these fellow men (English prisoners of war) with some small gifts. Some of them have been prisoners since August, 1914. We bought handkerchiefs and washing gloves, things very much needed by them, put one or two of them in a parcel and added to each an English pamphlet, by choosing some with a neutral title, like, for instance, ‘Upward Footsteps,’ and handed it to them from the platform with a hundred Monitors. The latter we are sending to them now regularly and receive letters of appreciation. In a similar way we are working with the French and German prisoners.”
A sheaf of grateful letters sent to the War Relief Committee at Geneva give some evidence of the harvest to be garnered in that fruitful field.
“I should like to express my gratitude towards the Committee of the War Relief Fund and to all those who are generously contributing to this cause, which came to our aid in a moment of need. My husband has been earning very little during the four years of war. We have had the great privilege of becoming acquainted with Christian Science which is teaching us that God is Love and the source of all that is good. With this knowledge we have been wonderfully preserved from all evil and our condition has changed and improved. Thanks to this teaching we understand God better and are very grateful for this.”
“Will you thank the Christian Science Committee for all the good that we have received spiritually and financially? Science has revealed to us a God to whom we can turn at all times and never in vain. . . . I do not know what we would have done without this help, as my mother has been bedridden since 1914, which obliges me to work at home so that I can earn very little.”
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