Feeding the Hungry, P. C. Hiebert, 1929

aid those immigrants in Canada who through sickness have become public charges. About $1500 have thus far been given for Mississippi flood sufferers. RELIEF COMMISSION OF THE MENNONITE BRETHREN CuHurcH oF NortTH AMERICA The usual channel for the relief work of the Men- nonite Brethren Church has been the Treasurer of the Board of Foreign Missions, who received and distributed gifts from individuals and churches according to the in- structions and wishes of the donors. Where the church took active part in greater undertakings beyond its immediate circles, it employed the agencies of the Ameri- 40 FEEDING THE HUNGRY can Red Cross and the Friends Service Committee. But as soon as larger Mennonite organizations were formed for the purpose of directing relief work, the church was prompt to affiliate itself where most convenient and expeditious. So it happened that its members and churches on the West coast were operating with the Pacific Branch of the Relief Commission, and when a little later the Emergency Relief Committee of the Mennonites of North America was formed in January 1920, which partly sup- plemented and partly supplanted the former organization, our brethren affiliated, and carried on considerable work in Siberia and central Europe as has been reported in an earlier part of this chapter. Upon the organization of the Mennonite Central Committee in July of 1920, the Mennonite Brethren Church affiliated itself with the same and distributed its gifts through this channel, except where special appeals or requests took some funds to fields where the Mennonite Central Committee was not operating. Even though the Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Church is small in comparison to some of its sister conferences, its members have contributed considerably over $200,000.00 to various relief purposes during the last decade. Thoroughly convinced of the expediency of organ- ization and cooperation of the several groups of Men- nonites for the purpose of relief work, the conference now has a standing organization under the title, “COMMIS- SION FOR COLONIZATION AND RELIEF OF THE MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH OF NORTH AMERICA.” At the time of this writing this commission is constituted and organized as follows: Rev. P. C. Hiebert, Hillsboro, Ks., Chairman. Rev. D. C. Eitzen, Reedley, Cal., Ass’t Chairman. Rev. H. H. Flaming, Corn, Okla., Secretary. Bro. P. H. Balzer, Bingham Lake, Minn., Secretary. ORGANIZED AMERICAN MENNONITE .RELIEF 41 Bro. J. W. Eiens, Hillsboro, Ks., Treasurer. Bro. John B. Dyck, Winkler, Manitoba. Rev. H. A. Neufeld, Herbert, Sask. The General Conference, assembled at Corn, Okla., November, 1924, voted in favor of a permanent All- Mennonite Relief Commission and appointed Rev. P. C. Hiebert to represent the Conference in the American Mennonite Relief Commission. MENNONITE RELIEF COMMISSION FOR WAR SUFFERERS By Levi Mumaw Under date of December 26,