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214 The temporal benefit of the above-mentioned humanitarian movement was secondary to its spiritual blessing for those heavily stricken Christians. The tearful prayers, the encouraging messages, the life-giving presence of so many benevolent Christian brethren and sisters, helped those afflicted people to carry their burden with more patience and to meet death with more courage.

The name of Miss Frances Willard will never be forgotten by the Armenians for her noble deeds toward the Armenian refugees at Marseilles, France. An Armenian woman, writing of Miss Willard, said: "A precious woman of Christ-like heart, has, by her tender look and touch, made our unbearable sorrows lighter. We could not understand her words, nor could she understand ours, but we understood her tears, which flowed freely for us."