GRATITUDE is not always short-lived.

This letter comes from Warwickshire : " Once again on behalf of myself and family I have pleasure in sending you a cheque value £l 7s. 6d. as a small donation towards the fund of the Life- boat Institution. It may interest you to know that this is the result of a small weekly effort on our behalf as a re- minder of the services rendered to us when our dear son and brother was torpedoed off Land's End on December 28th, 1917, since when a box has been kept handy for a small weekly con- tribution from all of us to be sent to you on the anniversary of the occasion every year. We thank God that through your agency he was spared to us then, and is now happily married, and holds the honourable position of organist at one of our big local churches.".