"REAL BROTHERHOOD."

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1918, Page 7

"REAL BROTHERHOOD."

HELP FROM NEW PLYMOUTH. Further evidence of the appreciation with which tiie gifts sent away by the New Plymouth (branch of the Victoria League, for the poor children of England, hare been received, is given in the February issue of the monthly paper of Holy Trinity Church, Toxteth Park, Liverpool. Under the heading of "Real Brotherhood," the paper says: It gives me real pleasure to tell our readers the following: Some little children, junior associates of the Victoria League, living at New Plymouth, Taranald, X«w Zealand, have-sent the vicar's cousin (Mr Hallam) a sum of money for children in England who have been orphaned by the wa'r Mr Hallam sent the vicar £2 and he has not had any difficulty in finding a suitable case for help, and the widow has received the £2 in fpod, clothing, etc., for the children, of wham thero are four. One of the little girls is a cripple, under treatment by the great Colonel Jones. The mother herself was once a scholar at our Ragged School at Beaufort Street. She has just undergone an operation for tumor. The father, who gave his life for us in the Somme battle, was an old industrial boy. The mother's pension is at present 29/G per week. It is a 'beautiful idea that the children of New Zealand should co-mo to the rescue of the children of England; surely we aro beginning to recognise that wo are all brothers and sisters, with one great common Father in Heaven; that is why we head this paragraph '"Real Brotherhood." There can be no more war when this idea of brotherhood becomes universal. There will come a time—p' lase God soon—when Jew and Gentile, and free, black and white, friend and foe, will recognise that they are members of the one ibody, and that there must be no schism in that body, but that tho members should have the sarnie euro one for another. A letter to Mr. Hallam, written by a .lady who distributed some of the gifts ;ent l>y the pupils of the ChotwodQ School, also contained the following paragraph: "Tho mothers are so grateful for the sympathy of the New Plymouth children. One had just the day before received the kit of her husband, who was killed last June, and said the little gifts I took were the first 'outaide' marks of sympathy she had had. And everywhere the same feeling was expressed."