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Show CHURCH COUNCIL ENDORSES N.E.R, Federal Body Says No More Compelling Need in All the World. Departing from custom, tho Toiler-nl Toiler-nl Council of Churches has endorsed the woik being done by Near Kast Relief, 1 Madison Avenue, New York City, tho former committee for A.-nieuhin A.-nieuhin and Kyrlau Itellef which hns essnjed thu task of caring for I.'J.'iO,-000 I.'J.'iO,-000 starving peoplo lu Western Asia. Resolutions adopted by the executive committee, as nuiiounecd by Charles S Mncfralnml, general iecrolary, are us follow s : "Vour commit Ice recommend l hat prayers ho offered In nil our churches for tho suffering children throughout the world, especially those who ale In distress and peril as the result or tho war. ' , "They further recommend thnt wt realllriu and euiphaslxu our Interest and co-npcriitinu In tho plans of 1 'Near Kast Itellef. We know o! nu need In thu world that Is mole compelling com-pelling than that of the Anueuhiii, Syrian and other peoples In the Levant Le-vant Jio hnvo already received and must still reculvo thu generous sympathy sym-pathy of the American people." |