"Making Room" - NER Sunday-school bulletin, June 1921
Location
United States
Year
1921
Context
Sunday-school bulletin in NER's Form OS-SS series, identified in the form line as "Form OS-SS No. 4-10691" and "Bulletin No. 3." The piece tells the story of a single August day in the Erivan (Yerevan) orphanage when a rumor circulated that twenty-five additional children would be admitted; hundreds of orphans appeared at the gates, of whom only the smallest fraction could be taken in.
A six-photograph sequence shows the children waiting at the railway platform, gathering in alleyways and along roadsides, the truck of the chosen few en route to the orphanage, and the larger group of those left behind under the closing line: "And for these, there was no room."
The bulletin sits within the same Sunday-school distribution channel that carried "Through a Near East Workshop Door" (Bulletin No. 1) the same summer. Both pieces use a reproducible photo-essay format and a clearly structured ask suitable for reading in a single Sunday class. The Erivan incident is the same one referenced in the Christmas 1921 "His Star of Hope" poster.
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