This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...Pennsylvania; the Tabernacle Epworth League of Camden; the publicschool children of Big Stone Gap, Pennsylvania; the Disston Memorial Sunday School of Tacony, and the Church of Christ, Oriston, Pennsylvania, were among the innumerable contributors to the ship. "Albert Cross, managing director of the Child Federation, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...Pennsylvania; the Tabernacle Epworth League of Camden; the publicschool children of Big Stone Gap, Pennsylvania; the Disston Memorial Sunday School of Tacony, and the Church of Christ, Oriston, Pennsylvania, were among the innumerable contributors to the ship. "Albert Cross, managing director of the Child Federation, announced yesterday that twenty-one hundred dollars had been collected since the opening of the pavilion. Here is "A Christmas Hint for the Christmas Ship," by William T. Ellis: ' There is but one further touch needed to complete the true Christmas and American character of the Christmas Ship. That is for every giver to make his offering on the highest plane of Christmas good will and American neutrality, that it will exemplify the magnanimous spirit of the occasion of the national life. "The way to do it is simple. Let each giver mark one of the gifts for the nation he is in least sympathy with. If the giver is bound to Germany by any sort of tie, let him send a gift to the British children. If for any cause he favors France, Russia, or Great Britain, let a gift be tagged for Germany or Austria. "Such giving would be a pledge of broad-minded sympathy and neutrality; it would reveal the human love of mankind, which rises above all partisanship. No more definite proof could be given of the sort of patriotism President Wilson has enjoined upon America, and it would breathe the innermost spirit of the Christmas Ship. "Of course, every such gift would be a message of American good will to the land for which it is destined. The news that the same giver had designated his friendly offerings for each one of the warring nations would spread far and wide in vindication of the reality of American neutrality and world friends...
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Good-/-hard cover. vo, cloth, 382pp. no dust jacket. warmly inscribed by author on front end page. shelfwear, rubbing, corners bumped, stray pen marks, soiling, fading spine, fraying corners, cover. text tanning, clean and tight with some proud signatures. scuff mark foot/foredge. light bumping top.
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