A UNIQUE COMMITTEE
short time the donated garments, both old and new, were assorted and shipped, bringing forth from one of the Canadian authorities the statement that never had he seen a more practical manifestation of genuine Christianity.
The joy of self-forgetfulness, of seeking one's own in another's good, put a new value upon the “odd moments,” and quickened the click of the needles. Knitted garments came in, in ever increasing numbers and varieties. Yet, though human need was daily increasing, and the stream of warmth and comfort necessary to meet it was daily deepening and broadening, suddenly every facility for larger giving was shut off. The locks were closed, as it were, and the stream held up without an outlet. What was the matter? What was lacking? What the one thing needful? Prayer for enlightenment was answered: ours was “a deed without a name.” If we were acting “in His name” we could say so. Quickly appeared the little label “Comforts Forwarding Committee. Christian Scientists.” The locks swung open at its touch, and the liberated stream poured out uninterruptedly to the end. The question of knitting was settled, but other needs were now arising. What of the soft, warm garments and other accessories so necessary to the comfort of the men in the hospitals and resting camps? What, too, of the refugees? “I was . . . naked, and ye clothed me.” A moment saved is a moment earned, and a needed, kindly deed no waste. Moreover, what messages of love, of truth, could go forth with every garment. “The divinity of the Christ was made manifest in the humanity of Jesus” ( Science and Health, page 25); the tender love of the Church of Christ, Scientist, could now declare itself in a new, tender and
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