Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-14
SPIRES OF The SPIRIT
CARE, Incorporated
BY DIR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
Chaplain Of the United states Senate

CARE, Incorporated, is the
Nations biggest business. Its
global applications and inn
plications are stupendous In
their bearing on the present
and the future. The diction-
airy says that TO be "incorpo-
rated" means to be furnished
with a body so that "a uni
fed company Of persons may
act as one" The Official
name, CARE. Inc.," suggests
exactly what 1t is and what
it does. 1t is care with a body
with lips and hands and
feet. Care is perhaps the
most heavily freighted word
in the language. But alas
what is sometimes labeled
love is like the Venus de
Milo with a plying smile but
with no arms stretched out
to help. Care is concern with
arms piled high with bundles
of mercy. 1t is sympathy
made flesh. with hands and
feet that no barrier or dis
lance can bar or defeat.
The record of CARE in a
dozen years is an epic Of
rescue and restoration such
as history has never before
witnessed. 1t is the most as
founding missionary enter
prise Of these revolutionary
days. 1t is missionary because
1t has a mission. That mis-
sion has a target, clear-cut
and definite under all skies.
1t is people. CARE cares for
nothing but the dire needs
of individuals - anywhere.
everywhere! 1t is impelled
by a sanctified imagination
which makes bodily misery
as urgent and vocal half a
world away as it now is for
all humane people half a
block away. Why should hor-
rible conditions torturing fell
low human beings, removed
from us by what we call
miles, affect us not at all
when the same arrows Of
outrageous fortune, stabbing
sensitive bodies in the house
next door, would murder
sleep for one worthy to be
neighbor? CARE unstopS deaf
ears and fits beyond-horizon
glasses to nearsighted eyes,
thus bringing the heart
breaking pangs of all men
and women and little chill
dren into the ken of our own
neighborhood.
1t is that poignant Mace
DOMAIN cry of unasSuaged woe
to which CARE has responded
across the IL tortured
years of it's history with more
than 81 million gift
packages - reaching now
% countries with
several others among the
most critical soon to be
opened. CARE means that
Americans are now reaching
in the worlds depressed areas
8.500.000 persons every day.
But it is not only saying here
are bread and clothing to as
sure your survival. 1t is also
putting in the hands it saves
implements for self-help. Be-
cause of CARES ministry in
the garden of the rescued
there blooms the flowers of a
new self-reSpect and in the
enriched ground, under
strengthened feet, springs
food to Danish hunger.
What then is CARE? 1t is
the realization that the final
test of ones stewardship of
life. as declared by that One
whose coming broke the ages
in two. will not be based on
questions with which organ
lied religion has been largely
concerned. The final judg-
ment which each at last must
face will not be rendered on
provisions made, doctrines
held. creeds recited or forms
observed-but on what did
you do for people-for those
who were in deepest need of
the succor it was in your
hands to bring?" For declares
the Lord of life, when We
do it unto one of the least
of these suffering ones--ye do
it unto Me"
What is CARE? 1t is an
swered prayer. 1t is the prac-