The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-23

dren do not spend their nickes foolishly for candy and other things: they put them in the boxes for the Red Cross. Our men and women give their iewelry, their golden rings, our women and girls take care of the households of the poor. where the father is in the front; they nurse the sick; they take care of and feed the little children. All vanity of life has gone.
 Love and Charity Reign in Germany
 Love and charity reign everywhere in the country. In every city and yil- lage and hamlet the women and girls sit together for hours every day knit ting socks, which they send to the front At every railway station you find women and girls to refresh the passing soldiers The great question for everybody here is: What can I give, what can do for the fatherland? All social ranks are forgotten: the prince. the college professor, the farmer the working man. the business man. the princess the baroness the wife of the rich and of the poor all are united in the great work of charity Princess of Hatzfeld, who has beautiful cas- He near my home town, is working rom morning to night with the woni-s en of the city in the hospitals and at the station. I have seen her all hours of the day standing at the station re.
 
 coffee, cigars and sandwiches No eel ebratlons, no parties any more at the castle. The prince is at the front the young princess working from morning to night for the soldiers who go, and | for the wounded Morning for morn ings she kneels with the people in the 1 village church to pray and to assist | at holy mass. All our churches are | crowded day for day week for week, ! Religion, too, celebrates it's triumphs We have an array of soldiers in the | front, an army of heroic sufferers in
 our hospitals, an army of praying peo-
 pie at home And we are not ashamed
 or It. We turn to God; We pray con- l tinually for help, for peace Christ is
 the strength, the consolation the
 refuge of us all. We know that from Him comes all help, all suffering, all
 blessing. We pray and our soldiers
 pray also. The Catholics of the Rhineland have sent six chapel autos to
 the front. Christ strengthens our of ueers and soldiers in the feld..A cous- :n of mine, young officer, died for 1 his country some weeks ago. In his
 hands he had the rosary he kissed the
 cross before dying, and asked his com
 rade to send the rosary to his par
 ents at home. to tell them that he died
 with Christ. kissing the cross to keep 1 the rosary as souvenir of their boy So die heroes! Still. our soldiers have been called barbarians, are still called today barbarians, Huns and vandals
 Two brothers of mine are in the 1 front in Russia. They speak in their letters of their love for God. of their love for country: they tell of their marches, or theif-battles they tell of how they take care of the wounded and the poor people in that country they tell of their religious services, of the joy of seeing a chaplain. of sec ing the chapel auto: they tell how they and all soldiers and officers receive as often as possible holy communion oI all this they speak, but never they tell of crue1ties. of barbarian actions of plundering and burning. History later on will prove who were the bar barians and who were not in this world war.