The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-09
10 SAVE TIE STARVING
ST. ANTHONY Hill CHURCuEas,
UNION SERVICE LARGELY
ATTENDED
GRATIFYING SUM RAISED
Rev. Rockwell Clancy Gives a Vivid
Picture of the Appalling
Condition in
India.

The churches Of st. Anthony HILL in
GLIDING the First Methodist, Woodland
Park Baptist, Park Avenue Congregation
al and Christian churches, held a
union service last evening at the Dayton
Avenue Presbyterian church in the inter
ests Of the famine sufferers in India.
Rev. Rockwell Clancy, secretary of the
Bishop Thoburn special fund for India,
gave the address. Mr. Clancy has been
a missionary to India for nearly seventeen
years, and came to the United States to
attend the general conference of the NJ
E. church in Chicago. He is now lectur-
ing in cities in this country and raising
money for the famine sufferers. His ad-
dress is Albion, Mich, and money for
India may be sent to him there.
The service was largely attended and a
gratifying contribution made to the
famine fund
Mr.. Clancy said:
NY first experience in famine work was
n 1881 when %, G)0, 600 were affected, and
several millions persisted from starA alton.
FAMINE Is hard thing to describe to
an American audience vino have never
known anything of want l have heard
the wall of tie starving, and have seen
thousands Of living skeletons staggering
along the roads on their way to the gov
eminent relief camps, or in search OF
1000. Ihat wall, once heard, can never
be forgotten nor oan the picture ever be
eHaced from the memory.
The famine Is caused by TIE failure Of
the monsoon, which begins at the end Of
June and usually continues TIL the end
Of September
Periodically this monsoon fails, and that
part OF the country where tha monsoon
tails becomes a desert.
During the early part of this rear
Travelled hundreds OF miles through The
famine district, and never saw one field
Of grain In large districts the wells had
gone dry, so that there was TO water TO
drink. Thousands left their homes. tax
ing With them their families and cattle
IN search of food and water, and thou
sands died by the way, as there was fam
me on every side
The present famine covers an area Of
59o,509 square miles, -agld involves more
than $4,000, 0G0 II is the worst of the
fourteen famines of this century.
DIT. KlGpsch, of the Christian Hera d,
has Just returned from India. He tray-
e!ed through the worst parts, and says
that the scenes Of horror battle dascriD-
ton. He saw hundreds of dead bodies,
ara thousands of dying people. In one
relief camp 1900 people were carried off
by cholera; in another 25G0. For dars
the bodies remained unbur.ed, as the
camps were broken up and the poor peo-
pie scattered. Dr.. Klopsch cab ed to
New York for 100000 and one Of his last
dCIS before leaving INDIA was TO buy
100000 blankets for the sufferers, who.
during the rainy season, viii suffer from
exposure as well as from hunger.
II the rains should be abundant relief
viii come with the harvest in Oct Der
and November.
Many. have asked me what the British
government in India is doing for the
starving people. + Let me say that the
government, from its long experience VITA
famine; has reduced famine relief TO a
science. During years of plenty a fam
Inc fund aceumHlates,. and as soon as
there is a scarcity relief measures are
put into operation. Relief camps are
opened in all parts of the famine district
where the people can get enough to keep
them alive But the people are SO super
stitious that many refuse to enter these
camps, fearing to be made Christians by
force, by having their caste broken.
l believe that the government is dcing
its utmost to save the people SIX mill
ions, are being fed daily. Millions of
cattle have died which might have been
used fer food, but the religion of the H 4
docs torbids them to eat cows flesh
The missionaries are aiding the govern
nlent, and are saving thousands of chill
dren. who are being gathered into or
phanages. They expect to save 10000
children, who will be taught to support
themselves