Helping A Christian
An ornate silver filigree cross set with rose rubies, worn by an American visitor to Christchurch yesterday, had a story behind it. Mrs Louise Eggleston, founder of the Friendship Mission in Norfolk, Virginia, bought it in the Lebanon last year from an Arab refugee who sent his children to school with the proceeds of the sale.
The Christian Arab, Brother Andrew, lived with his family in a cattle stall and they were almost starving when Mrs Eggleston and her party of tourists met him. They heard he made magnificent jewellery and gave him orders worth 500 dollars.
“He was quite overwhelmed with so much money and said: ‘Now I shall be able to educate my children.’ We arranged for orders of his jewellery to be brought into the United States and we sell about 2000 dollars worth of it a year through our mission. It has meant that many children of Arab refugees in Lebanon are now being educated,” Mrs Eggleston said.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30802, 14 July 1965, Page 2
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