The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-10-27


Hundreds Thousand of peo-
pie in the near East are in dire dis
tress-0Jher hundreds of thousands
have persisted. The survivors must
be relieved and saved. To help
meet this appalling situation, the
Congress of the United States pass
ed resolution asking President
Wilson to appoint a time for max
ing an appeal and receiving gifts
for the sufferers. The president has
designated October 81 and % for
this purpose"
A Massacre, the most dreadful of
modern times.
Pillage and deportation on a
scale probably never before at
tempted.
At least million Armenian sur
vivors destitute.
In Syria, Persia and Palestine,
widespread hunger, disease and
death
One cablegram announced that
the refugees were eating grass
later message reports that the
grass is dried up and that the
emanciated victims are eating car
rion, the street dogs and even HUI
man flesh.
Another winter is approaching,
and homeless, penniless multitudes
have no shelter, clothing or food.
The cry for rescue comes for u.s.
Can we, dare we, withhold the
help we can give?
ARE WE GROWING CALLOUS?
" Another collection says some
reader, and hastily turns the page.
Not so fast. If America, calloused
by repeated appeals, shall lose her
grace of compassion, then she will
be the chief sufferer from the war
From the successive calls which
have been made upon her sympathy
since August, 1914, she can form
some faint conception of the de-
mands which human wayWardness
and sorrow and sin made and still
make upon the exhaustless heart Of
the great God, who is a God of love-
We do pray for mercy, and that
same prayer doth teach us all to
render the deeds of mercy
christianity is blamed for not
averting the catastrophe under
whose scourge the world now with
es. The charge may be ground
less, but if our brethren are sick
and starving while we who profess
to be His disciples sit in comfort and
luxury, we shall hardly escape the
condemnation of the world or of
Him who lived and died to teacn
us that all mankind are brothers"
A quotation from an editorial in
The Christian Advocate, Sept. 81,
1916.
1--WE are not keeping up with the
worlds suffering today. But
though we stop thinking of these
millions, living on the verge of des-
titution, THEY CANNOT STOP
DYING; though we may be callous-
ed to suffering, they cannot be cal
loused to starvation"
Extract from the sermon of a
minister who backed up his sermon
by raising $4,000 for relief work
in a week.
I'm Armenia alone last winter
people died of hunger and privation
at an average rate of consi derably
more than one (more nearly threel
every minute This is exclusive of
other tens of thousands who perish
in Syria, Persia and Palestine. The
suffering this coming winter threa-
tens to be more severe unless relief
is provided"
Facilities for communication are
such as that, while these sufferers
are ten thousand miles from US we
can easily and quickly reach them.
The American Committee for Ar
menian and Syrian Relief, in New
York, pay the expense of collecting
and forwarding money for the re-
lief of the suffering people And
when contributions reach New York
the Committee cables the amount to
it's destination. From forty CEN
tiers in the stricken lands mission
aries and other noble men apply the
the funds in feeding the starving,
clothing the naked sheltering the
homeless and ministering to the
sick. And they do this labor of
love at the risk of their own lives
and without charge. So one hun
dred cents in every dollar reaches
the sufferers. And all the time re-
Quirad to get it to them is the
time necessary to get it to New
York.