Show ir r the long arm of mercy by DR FRANK CRANE the red cross is the long arm of mercy it is the kindness of mankind Alan kind organized in man is an angel and a devil a dr jekyll and mr hyde the red cross is the good aroused energized too to thwart the bad it j is s the best antidote we know to the hane bane of war there are other ither charities more or less helpful the 1 I ile red cross is the mightiest of fill all charities the love and pity of all men made supremely efficient if ns as emerson said sensible men and conscientious men all over tile the world are of one religion this is the expression pies sion of that religion the red cross is humanity united in service it asks no mans opinion on only ay his need black or white friend or abe foe to tile the red cross there is no din ei ence it only asks aks who is suffering Sun cring ring and to him it goes the red cross is so efficient that governments recognize it so pure in its purpose that whoever wishes well his fellow nien men desires to help it so clean in its administration that the most suspicious can find no fault in it the red cross not only seeks to alleviate the cruelties cruel ties of war it is the expression of those human sentiments that some day will put an all end to war it is the ini impulse pulse of love striving to overcome the alie impulse of hate it is gercys operation cooperation co struggling against wars rivalries val ries it is the one society in which every man woman and child should be enrolled for it knows no sects no prejudices no protesting opinion the human being does not live that does not feel that t the he starving should be fed the sick tended and the wounded healed majestic and divine is this long arm of mercy it finds the fallen on the battlefield it brings the nurse and the physician to the victim in the hospital it leads tile the weeping orphan to a home it feeds the starving cares for the pest smitten whom all alj others abandon and pours the oil of help and pity into the bitter wounds of the world where a volcano has wrought desolation in japan or a flood in china or a hurricane in cuba or a famine in india or a plague in italy or ravaging armies in poland ser servia via or belgium there hies flies tile red cross cros the angel of god whom the fury of men cannot banish from the earth and to the ends of the earth over all the ways of tile the seven seas wherever as i ruman human misery there is extended to bless and to heal its ang long arm of mercy |