CHILDREN'S OFFERING TO ASSIST REFUGEE BOY.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 33, Issue 5, 1 July 1942, Page 2

CHILDREN'S OFFERING TO ASSIST REFUGEE BOY.

Mother's Appreciative Letter. , Charity m its truest sense was shown by. the children "of the N Tokomaru Bay Sunday "School m sending their Easter offering to the llefugee" Fund m Wei- , lington for the purpose of plihchasinjf a pair of boots for a little refugee boy. In \an appreciative and feeling letter, : which gives some impression of the relief to have escaped from' the Nazi tyranny, the boy's mother wrote asfollow:—. God bless you and the dear children for your great kindness. What a lovely thing to do! I wish I could show, you my gratitude m a visible forni, because words are not much. good. You have not .given words, but a very useful and real thing. I can- hardly express how deeply I feel moved by the brotherly spirit shown, to us m a world so utterly stirred and upset with the evil trying to conquer humanity. 'You see we cannot do very much but just, do pur. work honestly and conscientiously. Whenever a woman looks .at me, I have the feeling she is thinking: "Why is not your husband .fighting too?" Yes) he , would like to do his share, too, and he feels very; happy and proud now that he' has been accepted into the E.P.S. at last. ■ . ■ . " I quite understand that we shall have to be here longer and that you will have to trust us and understand that we have not been expelled from our •former country because we were parasites or bad citizens, and that we want to be properly working wheels m the: mechanism of our new home country. Trust us and you will find us loyal because we are deeply grateful for the shelter and chance to build up a new home m "God's Own Country,'' and even if we, on account of our awkward language and perhaps strange' behaviour may jar on people's nerves, our. children will grow up all right into proper- upright free men of whom, so God will, neither their parents nor the | country need be ashamed. The spirit m your children shows me that the new ' generation » at least m this wonderful ■ country is growing up .into a new era of love and understanding, beyond the walls of religion, tongue or shade of /skin.