The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-03-01
Fanny Andrews Shepard Writes
About ATnGnialS.
EFFECTS OF TURKISH MASSACRES
A Nation of Widows and Orphans.
Reference to the Powers AN
other Appeal to Christians.

A. T.
from Fanny Andrews Shepard a long
personal letter with couple of en-
closures concerning Armenian relief
work Mrs Shepard is the sister Of
Lorrin A. Andrews, Sheriff of Hawaii,
and was born in this country. She and
her husband are amongst the most pro-
minent of missionaries TO Armenia and
of two years ago. The Christians of
Honolulu have already sent between
$500 and $500 for the nation oppressed
by the Turks, but special further ap-
peal on behalf of the widows and Or
phans is made by Mrs. Shepard and
will be initiated at a meeting of the
Womans Board during this week.
Mrs. Shepard writes from Oberlin, O.,
where she has placed in the school
there for missionary children her two
daughters. Her letter in part is as fol-
lows:
Or Shepard is doing the work of
three men in Aintab this year. The
hospital and city medical work was
never so large. He sometimes has six
to eight and even nine major surgical
operations in one afternoon with the
assistance of the Armenian doctor and
DR.. Hamilton, the lady physician.
Often 200 patients come on the clinic
afternoon, which alternates with the
surgical hours. There are many mas
sacre repairs to be made yet, some
cases coming long distances. The I'M
sanitary condition of the people, due
to their impoverishment by plumber,
makes a great increase in diseases of
various kinds Ones heart is sick all
the time over the situation. DR.. Shep-
ard is president of the Central Turkey
College in Aintab, and treasurer of the
College Mission Orphan and Relief
work as well. Fortunately he is man
who has an immense capacity for
work. l am hoping that the industrial
relief work already started in many
places may be greatly extended and be
a real and permanent benefit to our
stricken people, who seem almost a ma
ton of widows and orphans. If Christ
ians in America would only join hands
with those in England in establishing
such practical means of helping them
to help themselves, something really
worth doing could be accomplished.
Do you think it possible to raise any
funds in the Hawaiian Islands for this
purpose to have a special branch of
industrial relief started in Armenia
with Hawaiian Islands money? Our
women are very clever with their
hands and can be taught to do beauti-
full work that finds ready sale in Eng
land and America. l have proved this
in the needle work industry of which
| have had charge several years, be-
gun in famine time and much enlarged
after the massacres. employ over 400
in this work in Central Turkey now
It is self-supporting after once started.
l am sending you number of circulars
and the last tract issued by the Arme-
MAN Relief Association. May I ask
you to have them distributed in Homo
lulu and other places and will those
whose hearts are touched not do some
thing for the orphans? Oh, that 1
could make people see what we have
seen, and they would be only too glad
to help these tens of thousands who are
suffering for the sake of Christ. l
wish some organized effort could be
made in Hawaii. 1 expect to return
to Turkey before long to take up again
, 7 g.,
time in that dark and cruel land.
Heart and flesh faileth, but God is our
strength. We have seen marvellous
evidences of what human hearts and
human frames can endure when God
is their strength. 1t is a pleasure to
renew my girlhood acquaintance with
Fanny Gulick Jewett, of Oberlin. Her
uncle Theodore and his wife are at
present making her a short visit, as
they are home from Japan this year.
l will be here for several weeks yet
and would be glad to have an answer
from you before my return to Aintab
Turkey"
The National Armenian Relief COM
mittee has its headquarters in New
York City. David ]. Brewer, Justice OF
the Supreme Court of the United States
is chairman. The treasury is with
Brown Bros, & Co., bankers Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew is a member of the exc
cutive committee. In the letter OF
Secretary Rev. F. d. Greene, sent by
Mrs. ,Shapard to Mrs. Judd, that mem
Der of the committee says:
1t is just two years since Armenia
was laid waste in blood and ashes. Sc
great was the loss of life $4,000, OF
whom most were men, the bread-win-
ners), so complete was the plumber and
destruction of property, that the very
foundations of business and agricul-
ture were swept away. America, while
least responsible, has done more to re.
lieve suffering, and to rebuild the shat
tered social and industrial system than
all the Powers and peoples of Europe
combined. This has been done, too
by the hands of our own heroic Am
erican fellow-citizens-th $50 mission
aries who have out-ridden the storm
Of death at their posts.
Though the need is still sore, VS.
have practically discontinued all gen
eral forms of relief, both for lack OIL
funds and to throw the people on theil