The record-union., 1896-11-28
APPEAL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS,
ISSUED BY THE OFFICERS OF
THE WORLDS w. G. T. u,
To Aid Not Only Armenian Refugees,
.rut Those Who Are In Want In
Their Own Country.

Chicago, NOV. 81 He AoAfo "Aio
statement has just been issued by the
General officers Of the Worlds Women
Christian Temperance Union:
ITO my comrades, and to all VINO
love and trust me: From the first you
have helped the hunted Armenians by
your prayers, your sympathy ana your
honest hard work. Thousands OF them
are to-day in comfort or In SAFETY De-
cause of the intelligence ana devotion
with which you have wrought for our
Christian brothers and sisters and the
little children on the bleak and danger
Gus hillsides and in those valleys smit-
ten by outrage and murder. 1t is
blessed fact that Patient continuance in
we'll doing is the foremost quallty In a
te-ribboner for we must do our
first works over again, and more also.
thereafter the Armenians can never
feel a sense Of safety, at least not in our
time. The more forceful Of them are de-
termined to risk all in the effort to
reach freedom, and While 1t is not 1or
us to strengthen this purpose on their
part, we must hold ourselves in readl-
ness to help the refugees who are con-
stantly escaping from the dominion OF
the Turk But we must not let this
work cause us to cease giving help to
the helpless who remain in that hap
less country. We must give money to
establish Industrial homes and orphan
ages for the women and children. but 1t
must be apparent to all that If we can
help to find homes and work for the
starving refugees we have at the same
time helped to set the Armenian people
on their feet and to put a new hope in
their hearts for the future.
The sorrowful and outraged women
can do but little for their nation The
vigorous and forceful families and youth
who have the energy and skill to save
themselves alive by making their es-
capes are full of promise for the years
to come. They are devoted to the in
terests of their country, and determined
to live rather than die for her. Thou
sands of them are penniless to-day in
Bulgaria, Alexandria, Marseilles. and all
along the border of the accursed Turk
ish empire. which only the rapacity Of
the great Powers suffers to blot the
map of world which is Frightening in
to peace and brotherhood.
1T is the purpose OF the leaders you
have chosen, and who believe they are
but carrying forward your wishes, to
provide a home for refugees at some
strategic point, possibly in Bulgaria.
which shall be known to the Worlds
Women's Christian Temperance Union,
and shall testify to the loyalty and
tenderness of our society toward those
who most needed our help at a time
when the heart of the whole world was
stirred by their unutterable misery
May l not. in closing, urge upon all
good people the significance of making
Christmas this year a day Of eontribu-
tons. at least for the most part. to the
Armenians who are starving in their
own country, or as a refuge for Arme-
mans who have escaped, sending in each
case to Mrs. Helen NJ. Baker, Treasurer
of the National Women's Christian
Temperance Union, The Temple. Chi
cago. Illinois. In this prayer and hope 1
am yours for deliverance of Gods
most loyal people.
FRANCES NJ WILLARD.
ISABELLE SOMERSET,
AGNES SLACK,
ANNA GORDON.
MARY SANDERSON.
General Officers Worlds w. C. T. u"