| Show world getting better says secy of near east relief december 20 1924 to the editor nearly twice a thousand years have been counted by generations of 0 mankind since that morning when tile the shepherds on the hills by bethlehem heard the angels singing peace on earth good will to men nearly twice a thousand years an and d till still among men there is cruelty war and murder who with the song of the herald angels in his heart can look at the world around us without hearing that cry on golgotha how long 0 lord how long there are men indeed who say that the world grows no better that human life will never be nobler than it is such men are wrong changes come slowly but it is not only the eye ot of faith aith that sees humanity growing nearer to the spirit of 0 christs teaching it is an unfortunate american who sate safe and happy in his own home today does not see beyond the happiness ot of his own children the happiness he has helped to give to fifty thousand other little children on the other side of the world we might have closed our minds and hearts to the agonies and death of those little children ot of the near east their cries were too far away to disturb our music or our laughter but we did not A we ve gave and are still giving sympathy and help to those children that most of us will never see in our giving we have built more greatly than we knew we have begun a new thing in international ter affairs we have created that great organization the near east relief which represents christianity in the councils of nations the spir it of christs Christ 3 teaching Is alive today in the near east as it has not been since the skies darkened over gongol tha because it is a living force among us here in america knowing what this spirit means in the near east today we know that a love greater than creeds as it was greater than all creeds embraced when ile he walked among men is still working through mankind with ever increasing power As never before millions of human beings are feeling something of the spirit of brotherly love which christ taught to men yours truly CHARLES V VICKREY benl secy near east relief bellef |
