Editorial May 5, 1917 Issue

Words of Gratitude

Editor

That other than Christian Scientists who have been helped by the Christian Science War Relief Committee are appreciative of the brotherly kindness thus manifested is shown in the letters given below.

"In this existence there are circumstances about which no history can ever give full particulars. The great river of life, in which at the present moment thousands of persons are sacrificing themselves in defense of their liberty—of their rights torn from them by force of arms—will turn us aside from secondary affairs, and the agonies suffered by the Belgian babies, combined with the atrocities committed in Servia, will absorb for the greater part the general attention in the histories of the future.

"It is for these reasons that a populace, clothed with a fatal and historically necessary destiny, not yet understood, flees along the Via Crucis. For these miseries our country has given bread, and its citizens are moved to help their Adriatic and Trentino brothers. But in Florence, far from the war zone, well defended from aerial excursions; where commerce takes advantage of the war conditions; where food has soared in its prices; where the rich, not having suffered the throes of desperation, who have never seen their homes crumble and disappear before their eyes, have closed their hearts, their purses, their doors, forgetting in their own good fortune the agony of others.

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