KIND POLK EVERYWHERE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 21, 25 January 1913, Page 12

KIND POLK EVERYWHERE

" ■"■'■"<»' —^ — » That there are kind folk everywhere is shown by a letter from an American missionary in Albania, who, writing to the British Weekly, says : — "I have recently passed through a great trial. My eldest son, a lad nearly thirteen ( years old, was attacked with appendicitis in the heart of Albania, far away from hospitals and surgeons. When it became possible to move him we brought him first to Trieste, then to Lausanne, where the end came. But this is not primarily to tell this very common experience of our poor humanity 5 I use it to serve as a basis for a whole-hearted testimony which X make to the basic goodness of mankind. It was everywhere the same story, from the poor, ignorant Albanian peasants who carried my boy on their shoulders, a three-days' journey to the coast, to the ship's crew on the way to Trieste, the Italian nurses and patients in the Hopidale Civico there, the people on the train en route to Lausanne, up to the world-famed surgeOn, Prof. Cesar Roux, of Lausanne, it was all the same story of kindness and helpful, sympathetic ministry to strangers in rteecf. "After all, love is sUprehle, but it is not a sword that gleams and flashes, it is rather, as Stevenson calls it, 'an amulet (to be worn and hidden on the breast) which makes the whoje world a gar' den.'" 1