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no furniture, no fire, though the weather was severe, and but one broken cup. The husband was a copper-plate engraver before the war and had been brought to this state of destitution because he had had no work. His family was helped until a position was secured for him.
One might mention also cases of Poles, Swedes, Italians and Armenians who had help from the fund which indeed literally fulfilled the words on page 13 of Science and Health, “Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals.”
The sculptress of whom mention was previously made was a Christian Scientist. Finding that there was no market for the products of her art, she turned her energy to toy making. With some slight assistance from the fund, she began to make dolls. Their originality proved so successful and attractive that they soon made a place for themselves in the large shops in Paris as well as abroad. The demand grew so rapidly that the sculptress was forced to employ someone to assist her and was eventually able to give work to as many as eleven women. Thus did the seed sown on good soil spring up and bring forth fruit an hundred-fold.
In many cases the desire was expressed to know something of that which was affording such help and eventually some became earnest students of Christian Science.
The work was carried on along these lines, helping individuals of all nationalities and of all sects and denominations, until the beginning of 1917 when it was found that the fund could be made to flow through broader channels so as to help in relieving
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