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Telephone Monroe 1030. Chicago Commons. Grand Ave. and Morgan St. August 26, 1915. Rev. Earnest L. Benson, Pilgrim Congregational Church, Madison, Wisconsin. My dear friend Benson:- Your contribution is all the more appreciated because of what you write about your own burdens. I wish I could help share them. It is very good for you to lend a hand to help us lift the never ending burdens oppressing our poor neighbors, which were never heavier than during this war. It has not only prolonged their unemployment, but has bereaved, distressed and impoverished so many of their kinsfolk in their fatherlands. When will it ever end and how? What will be left of democracy, civil right, Christianity? Optimistic as I always have been and am, it is hard to penetrate these darkest shadows that have ever fallen upon Christendom. There is more to darken than ever. But I have an unshaken that following this war there will there will be social revolutions, peaceable if they may be, forcible if they must, within most of the nations now at war/ The internationalism of labor is already reasserting itself. The internationalism of Christianity, though strangely silent, cannot fail to rise Hoping you are having great, good times in the beautiful city and stirring center at Madison, I am, Fraternally yours, Graham Taylor