ntiously
used for British subjects and for the subjects of nations allied
with England. For a considerable time our work has been such
that we can take advantage of the relief agencies of other
countries for the assistance of Germans abroad, and for that
reason can apply the means placed at our disposal for the
support of foreigners in Germany only. So our help is now
practically confined to "alien enemies," because the subjects of
neutral States, should they be in need, can obtain other
assistance, and it is our uppermost wish to relieve those who,
but for us, would perhaps be utterly friendless. It is,
moreover, a great satisfaction and encouragement to us that
outside your and our spheres the community of our work is so
strongly felt that people desire to further the efforts of the
two societies simultaneously. The confidence so kindly felt in
our efforts even abroad incites us to an ever increasing
devotion to our work, to the undertaking of new tasks, and to
the fulfilling of the old ones with more and more care in every
detail.

THE SPECTROSCOPE STORY.

The spectroscope story is a particularly good example of the way
reprisals of good work out. I take the following account from a leaflet
signed W.R.H., and already known to many workers in the cause of
fellowship.

A spectroscope, I believe, is an instrument which takes a ray of
light and proceeds to spread it abroad. At all events, the
description seems to suit in this case.

The spectroscope game was started by Bishop Bury. After his
return from his visit to Ruhleben Camp he mentioned in a lecture
that some of the science students interned there were very
anxious to obtain the use of a spectroscope. The report of this
lecture was read by one of the camp visitors of the Friends'
Emergency Committee, who was a schoolmaster and a scientist.
Moreover, he possessed a spectroscope. So he joined in the game
and played his piece. But instead of trying to send the
instrument to Germany, he wrote to St. Stephen's House and
suggested that inquiries should be made as to whether any of the
schools in the internment camps in England were in need of such
an apparatus. If so, he would lend his, and ask our friends of
the Berlin Committee for assisting alien enemies to try to do
the same for Ruhleben. It was soon discovered that a gr