The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-01-05
contributions PAID
new HEADQUARTERS
OF EUROPEAN RELIEF

Subscriptions and contributions were
received in the newly opened headquar-
ters of the local organization of the
European Relief Council, Tuesday
evening. Many others were added
Wednesday.
With the appointment OF young
woman to be in constant attendance
at the office, the Walter B. Fulghum
music store, corner Tenth and Main
streets, an opportunity is offered for
contributions at any time. Heads Of
this benevolent movement are expect
ing the people of Richmond and
Wayne county to respond nobly to the
appeal.
With the lives of hundreds of thous.
ants of babies at stake; with the re-
suit of life Or death resting in the
every town in the United States, the
relief officials are looking hopefully
forward to substantial response.
Upon posters on the front of the
headquarters are the words, $500, 900
Babies are Starving; Give-Here--
Now
Although many churches of the city
have taken special collections for use
in the fight for the lives of the starv-
ing, many more are expecting to make
contributions. Organizations of the
city have appointed committees to CO.
operate in the campaign.
Woodward Appeals.
Walter Woodward, editor of the
American Friend, made a written ap-
peal Wednesday. in which he said:
Reaching far back to the story of
Abraham entertaining angels un-
awares, our literature is replete with
stories of hospitality extended to un-
recognized heavenly guests. Some
times it has been aims extended to a
beggar in rags, or refreshments given
to the famishing, or lodging to the
travel-soiled wayfarer, or a helping
hand to the burden bearer, or food to
a little child.
Thus often has Christ himself ap-
reared i'll the guise of the unknown
guest. He himself has set the seal
of his approval upon the Christian con-
ception of these beautiful, impressive
stories. Indeed He has so exalted the
grace of giving to the suffering as to
make himself the object, the personi-
fication Of the one in need: Inasmuch
as ye did it unto one Of these my
brethren, even these least, ye did it
unto Me- In a very real sense it is
He who thus becomes the guest when
ever we extend the grace of hospital
ity to the hungry and the wayworn.
Pleads for Children.
I'm a special sense this is true in
the case of suffering little children
Their innocence, their helplessness,
their yearning, anxious love of which
they are the center, their kinship with
our own little ones-the universal kin
ship of childhood-all these appeal to
the very best and highest within us.
Through the children whom He so
loved, the Christ speaks to us.
at is not uncommon to find the
household motto expressing the hope
that Christ may be the unseen guest
in this home. 1t is a beautiful con-
ception, a noble aspiration. Unless
put into action however, it ceases to
be more than pious cant, even less
pious. 1t becomes emblazoned when
the conception, the aspirations become
flesh and dwell among us, full of
grace and truth.
"It was this truth which Herbert
Hoover seized upon when, in behalf
Of the suffering, starving children OF
the world, he made the appeal to the
American people to take into their
homes for these winter. harvestless
months, the invisible guests