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The Gift Divine 1
S Gy WM. BRADFORD DiCKSON 3
Jit this fair Christmastide,
fWhen Joy bells ring out
The song of plenty and ring in
The reign of peace throughout
This wonderful land of ours?
The while across the sea
iOld Mother Earth is drenched with blood
And hate and carnage reign supreme;
While sucklings wail for milk
.And children faint for lack of food;
While strong men fail beside the way
And homeless women kneel in prayer?
I do not ask for gifts
Of frankincense and myrrh.
Of gold, of Ophir or of either Ind.
,Ot jewels rare or priceless merchandise,
Of marble halls or vast estates,
' TOor e'en the costly homage of mankind;
But this?
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That I may give each day full meed
TJnto the willing mind and heart,
Of light of Truth and warmth of Love,
Of matchless skill jn comfort's art?
That magic all transforming touch
Which heals the leper's spots
And turns to naught the wounds and
scars
Deep seared upon the heart of man
On life's great battlefield;
That I may bind earth's broken hearts,
Lifting up the drooping heads j
Of the oppressed and burdened ones,
That I may plant within young hearts
A deeper longing for the Right?
Of mercy for the hapless weak
And those who suffer daily throes >
Of hunger, pain, disease, neglect;
That I may know forgetfulness
"For daily slights and wrongs;
That I may hourly grow
In love of liberty, of friend and foe.
And all the world
May grow in love?a fruitful lov?
For all the beauty and true
In nature, art, the heavenly realm
And for the noble deeds of all mankind; '
That I may fill the widening hours of
life
"With courage, cheerfulness, and hope]
That I may help my fellow man
iBehold the dawn beyond the night.
The gentle calm beyond the storm.
These are the gifts I crave
Above the blind world's treasure trove
Of gaud and gilt.
Who gives his better self the whole year
through
Gives life's own priceless gift to all the
world and you?the gift divine.
?Chicago Evening Post.
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tide come to each and
eocry reader, and may it last i
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THE RED CROSS ROLL CALL. 4
When "the greatest mother In 4
the world" calls the roll the 4
week of December 16-23 the 4
hope of the American Red Cross 4
is that the- answer for the entire 4
American people will be: "All 4
present, or accounted for." 4
It will be the occasion for 4
22,000,000 adults and 8,000,000 4
children to renew their member- 4
ship and for all others to Join. 4
One happy slogan of the roll call 4
announces that "all you need is 4
a heart and a dollar." 4
Why does the Red Cross at
Christmas conduct a member- 4
ship campaign? Because it unites
the people in an intimate way
with the organization they have
supported so magnificently. In
other countries one of the most
impressive things about the
American Red Cross is the size
of its membership, attesting 4
truly popular approval.
This Christmas, when our
country is out of the deep waters
of the war, every dollar paid for
an annual membership in the
Red Cross will be a direct
Christmas gift to our land, air 4
and sea forces and to those who
have felt the sting of war in a
way that we in this country
have not experienced. The min
istrations of the Red Cross will
be as good a substitute for 4
Christmas at home as can be
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b quick to answer "Here" to the
b roll call, because service and b
b sacrifice are womanly qualities b
b and they are Red Cross quail- b
b ties. b
b President Wilson, as president b
b of the American Red Cross, b
b says: (T summon you to the b
b comradeship I" b
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?I think if the people of America
could only see and realize what the
boys are doing out here," said a Captain
after Chateau-Thierry, "they
would gladly back them up with their
last dollars and their Urea If necae*
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i from their present suffering. Dr. John
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Palestine and former Commissioner of
1 Education for the State of New York,
has cabled that this additional work is
immediately necessary.
At least one-third of the population
of Lebanon has died of starvation and
i disease, due to lack of nourishment
I Many villages are virtually depopulated,
and thousands of people are in
need, owing to epidemics, lack of employment
and the prohibitive prices of
food.
Families formerly in the best of circumstances
have been reduced to destitution.
Every one is clamoring for
an opportunity to, rehabilitate himself.
Owing to a lack of physicians the conditions
in many hospitals are deplorable.
More than ten thousand sick civilians
have been cared for by tie American
Red Cross during a single month,
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more than three thousand in the Hauran
district, the cable asserts.
Dr. Finley gays the American Bed i
Cross worker;} have been doing everything
possible to relieve this distress,
but adds that greatly increased help j
must come at once. He requires two j
additional hospital units immediately.
General Allenby has cabled the British ;
War office to approve this plan.
Dr. Finley Journeyed on foot from
Beersheba to Dan in the wake, of the
advancing Bidtlsh forces, and at the
time of sending the cable had just comt->latorl
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er Syria, passing through Nazareth,
Tiberius, Tyre, Sidon, Haifa and Belrut,
reaching the latter place two days
after Its occupation by the British
forces.
"America should be the first to help
In the rehabilitation of the Holy Land,
which Great Britain and our Allies
have redeemed," declrres Dr. Flnley.
"The first medium of help should be
the American Red Cross, which makes
no distinction as to race, creed or color.
Under th e trusteeship of those who
recovered this sacred land, which is
the cradle of three j>eat religions, the
civilized world Is now given the opportunity
of illustrating its highest ideal*
for humanity."
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