The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-02-25

| Relief and are reported to be making
good progress. The campaign fol
funds moved over to Maui from Homo
lulu on Tuesday and is to last for a
week. In Honolulu subscriptions, in
addition to collection in the Central
Union Church and some other collec.
tions is in excess of $11 600, between
$4,000 and $4,000 was raised on Kauai
it is reported, and Maui hopes to add
between $4,000 and $4,000.
| Tuesday evening the campaign was
officially opened at the Territorial
Building in Kahului by DR.. Lionel L.
Writ who was one of the leaders in
the relief work that was started in
| 1919 when the United States took up
the work through a separate organi-
zation from the American Red Cross
which latter organization withdrew
that work be not duplicated. How
ever, the Red Corss has made loans
to the younger organization at times
when there was a temporary short
| age of funds.
DR.. Writ is a pleasant speaker, and
a master of English. Had it not been
for the Kona storm with heavy show
ers the auditorium would surely have
been filled. AS it was those who at
tended were held deeply interested
for and hour and half. The speak
er was introduced by C. D. Lufkin,
chairman of the Maui organization
for the Near East Relief drive and
said in part:
We have been passing through five
epochal years-years l trust which
will never come again: Nineteen
iourteen-how will you remember that
year? That was the year of the song
of hate" Nineteen -fifteen-how will
We write the spirit of that year? 1t
was the year of the loss of the Lusi-
tania; Nineteen n-sixteen-that was the
year in which General Nivelle, com
mander of the beleaguered French at
Verdun, nailed hisi immortal words
to the flagstag, "They shall not pass!"
and they did not pass; Nineteen seven
teen-ah, that was the year when our
own military leader laid wreath on
a grave in France and said: "Lafa-
yette, we are here Nineteen eighteen
the year of Argonne forest, and
Chateau-Thierry, and Sedan, the sec
ond Sedan; Nineteen-nineteen-
year of the peace conference; and now
how will you remember these years ?
Well, l will tell you how millions of
suffering people will remember it
the year for the binding up of the
wounds of the war
And who are binding up the wounds
of the world? Not England; she is
having all that she can do to repair
her own fortune. Not France; she is
building over against her own broken
threshold, and has no time for others |;
not Germany; not Russia. There is
only one nation under the blue canopy
of heaven strong and generous and
ready. That is our own dear land,
which has risen in response to the cry
of need from the uttermost parts of
the EARTH So the thought l have for
you is more of report than anything
else; to come back and tell you what
has been done with your dollars. For
you have given to that fund which
has gone over the sea, winged with
love, and which has restored, in a
measure at least, the Garden of Eden,
In January, 1919, l was invited to
join company of 500 relief workers,
who crossed the Atlantic with five
great ships given by the United States
Government. The thirty millions of
dollars raised that year for Near East
Relief was invested in food and cloth
ing and medicine, love and good cheer.
Gladly did we sail away with flags fly
ing and with the food store tnat was
to restore the old Bible lands to some
thing of their pristine beauty and love
Illness. Who are these to whom we
gave relief? Let me carry you back
a few years and tell you something
about these wonderful people-the Ar
menians.
Armenians Old People
When Hiram, King of Tyre, wanted
to help his friend, King Solomon, in
the erection of the greater temple, he
had no horses to pull the cedar beams.
So Hiram went over beyond Damascus
and, as we used to think, got some
of the Arabians to help him; but now
we know he appealed to the people
who settled around Mount Ararat,
the Armenians, and they gave him
horses.
Then we come TO the days when the
people reached out gladly for the new
light that came from heaven, and two
disciples, Bartholomew and Thomas,
went over to the plains of Cilicia and
evangelical the Armenian people. In
the year 2S1 Gregory found them wor-
Shipping the true God, and organized
them into a church that has come to
be known as the Gregorian Church; a
church which antedates all other
churches. 1t was organized before
Constantine saw his cross in the
heavens, or before the Roman EN-
pire had set it's seal on Christianity at
the Council of Nice. So we think to-
day of the most ancient Christian
people, who are neither Protestants
nor Catholics, nor Jews nor Greeks.
Therefore, they appeal to us without
prejudice, and We gather our funds for
their relief from all classes of people.
Then We come to the time OF the
Crusaders, when those who went forth
to rescue the holy sepulcher from the
hands of the Saracens, crossed the
mountains, and were driven back by