Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-08-09
WRITES FROM INDIA.
Miss Fannie Hoffman Tells Of TIL
Famine Stricken Land.

I
The following letter to R. M.
White, Of the India Famine Relief as
ISOLATION, from the daughter Of Eli
Hoffman Of Belle Springs, will be Of
interest. She is a niece Of J. X. For
ney Of this city;
KHAMGAoN, Birar, India, July O.
Dear friend and laborers: | did not
think it would 60 this long before
write you and other members Of the
Famine Relief association. We have
been pressed with work so that we
have very little time to communicate
with the many dear friends who have
been SO thoughtful Of the needy ones
in this land and besides the work
some OF us have been very i'll. | have
Just recovered from severe illness.
l was quarantined four weeks at
Igatapuri with smallpox. My heart
is very grateful to the Eternal God
for restoring my health and sparing
my life to India while longer. We
do thank you and all who have min
istered to this people for the offerings
you have sent us through my uncle.
The Lord loveth a cheerful giver,
May His richest blessing rest upon
all that gave as unto Him.
At this place we have the girls or.
phanage, widows home and general
famine relief work. We have taken
in over a hundred girls since the fam.
inc began and have now over two
hundred famine waits in this institu-
ton. The widows home is about
completed. Last Saturday we opened
and there were forty subjects for this
place. In building this house we
took famine people, provided for
them until they were able to work
and have about one hundred Of them
at work. Then we have about two
hundred more little children, the
parents Of many are living. We
have taken these only through the
famine as the parents could not sup
port them. We feed and clothe them
and put them in schools. At present
we have two Brahams Pandita teach.
ing them. Many Of these have been
found when almost dead. Most Of
the money you sent us has been used
in feeding these last ones reported
and has kept them for more than two
months. We don't keep any men and
women that won't work. There are
about five hundred people staying in
our compound. Besides this we fur.
nish corn to about one thousand PEG.
pie that work in government relief
camps from the corn you and tho
Christian Herald sent. We have
about one thousand bags OF corn In
our Bungalow and another car load
came today. The people like your
corn much better than the Christian
Herald corn. They can grind your
new corn better than their two year
old corn which is so hard. We are
thronged with the starving multi.
tudes from early morning till late at
night, The heavens are curtained
with clouds but have not much rain.
The monsoons have broken and we
ought to have rain daily. The scourge
Of cholera is raging in many places.
In the Gujerat district in one relief
camp fifteen hundred have died in
three days. We do believe that dur
ing this famine many hearts will be
humbled and souls saved. The chill
dren that have parents will he given
back to them after the famine is over.
If parents don't come for them we
will keep them in the orphanages.
At this writing am well and have
taken up the regular work again.
am always glad to hear from friends
Ileft in Abilene.
FANNY l.. HOFFMAN.