Editorial September 29, 1945 Issue

"Let her own works praise her"

John Randall Dunn

The Field will have been apprised before this issue of the Sentinel of the War Relief Committee's announcement that the Christian Science War Relief work is expected to be brought to a close about September 30. "The Committee finds that the turn of events in Europe has already changed and will further change its work," we read in its report, which continues: "The need to ship to England has ceased. The relief committee in England reports that they have enough cases on hand to take care of the relief work which they think wise to do in the future."

The loving fingers of thousands of Christian Scientists have sewn and assembled garments of every description for their stricken friends in eleven countries overseas. The contributions from the United States alone have reached the grand total of twenty-three thousand five hundred cases, with a monetary value of about $4,000,000. Of this there are still on hand three thousand cases, and over five hundred fifty more are being packed monthly, for Continental Europe when shipping there is possible.

The chairman of the Wartime Committee of The Mother Church in the United Kingdom writes: "There can be no doubt that this generous outpouring of loving solicitude and support by Christian Scientists in the United States has met a pressing need in this country at a time of great stress, and now that the emergency period is drawing to a close, we realize that there has been a rich harvest of appreciation and gratitude both to the Christian Science movement and to the United States, which must prove to be a substantial contribution to the understanding of our two countries."

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