The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-19


 faces us all now is to serve one an other and no man can afford to maze d fortune out of this war There are men amongst us wno have forgotten that, if they ever saw il. Some ot .Ou are old enough--I am old enougn-tU remember men who made fortunes out .of the civil var and you know how they were regarded by their fellow cit izens That was a war to save one country-this is war to save the world
 And your relation to the Red Cross Is one Of the relations winch will relieve you of the stigma You cant give nything 10 the government ol the United States, 1t won't accept. There is law ot congress against ac Cepting services without pay. The only thing that the government 1iu accept is a loan and duties performed, but 1t is d great deal better to gi,o than to lend or 10 pay and your great channel for giving is the Amer!caI Red Cross
 Down in your hearts you can't take very much satisfaction in the last analysis in lending money to the gov ernment of the United States because the interest which you draw will UJn Jour pockets; it is d commercial transaction and some men have even dared to cayil at the rate of interest not knowing the incidental comment ary that constitutes upon their attl- tude.
 But you give something of your heart, something of your soul some thing of yourself goes with the gift particularly when it is given in sIch form that it never can come back by war of direct benefit to yourself. You know there Is the old cynical delini- ton of gratitude as the lively ex- pectation of fayors to come
 Well, there is no expectation of favors to come in this kind of giving These things are bestowed in order that the world may be a filter place to live in that men may be succored that homes may be restored, that sui fering may be relieved; that the face of the earth may have the blight of destruction taken away from it and that wherever force goes there shall 30 mercy and helpfulness
 And when you give, give absolute Fly all that you can spare, and don't consider yourself liberal in the giving If you give with -adulation you are not giving al all You are giving to your own vanity but if you gvo until it hurts, then your heart blood goes into it.
 And think what we have here, we can 1t the American Red Cross, but it is merely a branch of great inter national organization which is not recognized by the statutes Of each Of the civilized governments of the world but 1t IS recognized by international treaty and agreement as the recog- nized and accepted instrumentality of mercy and euccor And one of the deepest stains that rests upon the reputation Of the German army is that they have not respected the Red Cross.
 That goes to the root of the mat ter They have not respected the in strumentaHty they themselves partic- ipated in setting up as the thing which no man was tO touch because it was the expression of common humanity We are members by being members of the American Red Cross of great fgraternity and comradeship which ey tends all over the world and this cross which these ladies bore today is anl emblem Of Christianity itself
 It fills my imagination, ladies and gentlemen, to think of the women all over the country who are busy to- night. and are busy every night and every day doing the work of the Red | Cross busy with a great eagerness to l find out the most seryiceable thing to | do. busy with a fOrgetfulness of all the old friyOlities of their social re- ready to curtail the du ties Of the household in order that | they may contribute 10 this common l work that all their hearts are engaged in and in doing which their hearts become acquainted with each other
 When you think of this you realize how the people of the United States are being drawn together into great