Feeding the Hungry, P. C. Hiebert, 1929

were made to find legitimate work for these girls but very often this resulted in failure, therefore material for fancy-work was purchased and the girls were assisted in producing some marketable articles. These were taken to the city and sold wherever possible at cost price, and the proceeds delivered to those who had made the articles. This seemed to shorten the long win- ter evenings which they spent together in the large living room around the only stove which the building contained. To-day these girls are scattered from Vladivostock to New York City, but there is no doubt in the minds of the girls and the workers that these women were saved from many hardships and perhaps death of honor and womanhood by the aid of the Mennonites of America. Daniel Schroeder was born on a farm near Hillsboro in Marion County, Kansas, November 4, 1900. He spent his early days in the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Schroeder, who gave him a Christian training in the home and such educational opportunities as the public school of the district and later the High School offered. Later he attended Bethel College, Newton, Kansas, and Friends University at Wichita, Kansas. In between he spent some time studying mechanics in a school kept up by Henry Ford in connection with his great automobile industry, which prepared him well for the work in Russia. In the spring of 1923 he was asked to accept services under the M. C. C. and take charge of agricultural re- construction work in the New Samara district of Eastern Russia. He sailed from New York on March 3, 1923. After serving faithfully he returned to America in 1924. Since his return he has entered the hardware business and is now connected with a firm located at Mc- Pherson, Kansas. THE PERSONNEL OF THE MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE CHAPTER XIII All the members chosen to fill positions on the Staff of the Mennonite Central Committee when it was first organized have stayed with us until the end, with the exception of H. H. Regehr, Mountain Lake, Minn., who served only temporarily and Wm. P. Neufeld of Reedley, California, who was called to his eternal reward after self- sacrificing exertion in the service of those of the “house- hold of faith.” All of the members have shown a kindly thoughtfulness and tolerance of the opinions of others. All have given ample evidence of a vital interest in the cause. We have never been obliged to pass an important resolution over an opposing vote. Naturally, there were differences of opinion; but in such cases matters were carefully examined until all agreed on the final decision. Looking back over the experience of more than seven years, during which time we have worked together, I cannot help but believe that they were a God-chosen group of representative men, selected to uphold and direct the unprecedented exemplification of brotherly love by the Mennonites of America. All have sacrificed time and energy for t