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The n My dear Friend: •The Children of Sorrow stand before you! Won't you set a place for*' them at your table on Christmas Day? • ; a# They are ragged, homeless and hungry, but they are not hopeless. In their simple faith they turn trustingly to you. 1 he ( hildren of Sorrow! There are unknown thousands of them; I 10.- 639 of whom are under American care. It is an appalling number of pitiful orphaned wards the Near ELast Relief must shelter under its mercifu) wings. There is mile after mile of human misery to be relieved. Fatherless and motherless these are the children of Armenians.; Greeks and Jews made homeless and dependent by the atrocities of the Turks. They will have no place this vear at a family table of their own on the Great • Day we celebrate. As vou eagerly pla nthe Festival for the Children dear to vour own heart th ink for a moment what it would mean if some terrible fate deprived them of your love and care,/feft desolate, suffering with disease and bitter cold. Yet these children across the sea were once the adored and beloved babies of other fathers and mothers whose protecting love they never will know again. A diet of bread for breakfast, bread and soup fcJi dinner and bread for supper! 'i et this slender ration means life to them. Fi ve dollars a month will feed one child. Ten dollars a month will feed and clothe one. Fifteen dollars a month will feed, clothe "and educate one of these Children of Sorrow. At this season of giving won't you let the claim of one of these Children of So rrow find a place in your heart? * ^ His hungry eyes look at your well-fed .children, and his longing hand reaches out to your Christmas tree. Will you bring a smile to this Child of Sorrow bv sharinor with him vour Christmas? Near East Relief 211 Liberty National Bank Building * .« * * . . * ' - i '• Columbia^ S. C. E. O. Black, Treasurer