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 hall officials telephoned that a number of physicians, surgeons and trained nurses wished to make the trip, and found that it was practically impossible. They, therefore, asked permission to go on the Christian Science special. Permission was instantly granted and some forty doctors and their assistants rode to Halifax in company with the Christian Scientists.

The Christian Scientists of Boston, Mass., magnificently came to the assistance of the stricken people of Halifax, when they sent a special train from the Massachusetts capital bearing relief of all kinds in clothing, provisions and supplies for the suffering, homeless and destitute.

The train was met at St. John by a committee of prominent business men. Accompanying this splendid donation was the sum of $10,000 in cash. Hearing of the departure of the relief special, thirty or forty Red Cross officials asked permission to accompany the train, and leave was willingly granted. It was an unusual spectacle—a train of relief from the mother Christian Scientist church in Boston, with leading church officials in charge, and Red Cross officers with them, all bent on the one errand of mercy—the relief of suffering. A collection taken in the mother Christian Science church in Boston last Sunday for the Halifax relief fund, in answer to an appeal, elicited the splendid response of $4693.14. Special appeals were made in Port Arthur last Sunday in the Christian Science church, and when the returns are all in it is expected that $50 will be forthcoming from this small coterie of generous people.

Sorrow and suffering are often the mellowing influence required to drive the steel from the hearts of men. With all