Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-10-31
SUNDAY SCHOOL
TO HELP WORK
PLANS ON FOOT FOR ARGANEZED
EFFORT TO RAISE LARGE
RELIEF FUND.

The remoteSt place on the CONT
nent in these stirring days is not too
secluded to feel the world-thrill, and
to have a part in the great move
ments that are making the world a
better place to live in, and alleviat-
ing its suffering" said Mr.. w. c.
Pierce of New York City recently
Rev. G.. w. Van Dram has been chosen
by the Iowa State Sun
day School Association and the In
ternational Sunday School Associa-
ton. with headquarters in Chicago,
as the leader CT a campaign looking
toward CONFERENCE.-THE Sunday
School Visitation Day, Dec LIST,
when every Sunday School in North
America will be visited by repre-
sentative of the Organized Sunday
School Movement. in behalf of the
suffering thousands in Bible lands.
christian North America said
Mr.. w. c. Pierce, Ifs being called on
at this time to pour out its money
for Liberty Bonds and for War Serv-
ice activities of every kind. II is re-
spending nobly. Another challeng-
ing call. however, is sounding in the
ears of the Christian people of North
America. 1t is the call OF over two
million people in Bible lands-Ar-
menians. Syrians and Greeks of Asia
Minor.
These people. who are the hope
of civilization in Western Asia, have
endured. and are enduring. such suf-
fering as our American minds cannot
conceive. They have been massacred
nd u nrsA al l,a.
arated from their families and ruth
lessly murdered. Attractive women
and girls have been sold as slaves or
taken by the Turks. The rest of the
women and the children have been
driven into the mountains and the
desert, and the path over which these
refugees have gone is strewn with
the dead. In the past two years over
one million have died from massacre,
deportation. exposure and disease.
But the dead no longer challenge us;
it is those who live and can yet be
saved
THE rayages of war the past year
have added to the horror. The Turk
ish armies have destroyed everything
in their wake. Four million people
destitute of home, clothed only in
rags, are facing the cold of winter
and starvation. One million of these
can be reached by relief agencies.
Four hundred thousand of them are
orphans. The relief agencies can
do nothing unless North America fur
nishes the money.
''The land where Christianity had
its birth is asking for a practical
demonstration of that Christianity
now. Ill the denominations have
united to answer this call from the
east and campaign has been
launched to raise two million dol
lars from the Sunday Schools of
North America. Every Sunday School
is asked to give a Christmas season
offering TO Armenian and Syrian Re
lief work.
"To make sure that no Sunday
School is overlooked in this appeal,
the International Sunday School AS
ISOLATION is planning to have every
Sunday School visited on Dec. 1st
for the purpose of explaining the
need, creating enthusiasm and pledg
ing the schools to make as large an
offering as possible. The Interna-
tional Sunday School Association in
this campaign is working in cooper
alton with the Armenian and Syrian
Relief Committee in New York, and
the two million which they are TO
raise is part of a larger campaign on
the part of the committee for thirty
million dollars.
'The Armenian and Syrian Relief
committee have already done Won
derful work in ministering to these
suffering people and have been en-
abled TO save thousands of lives. The
committee is directed by leading men
of the continent and its work has
been highly endorsed by President
Wilson, and Sir Robert Borden the
Premier of Canada. and by Mr..
Roosevelt and Mr. Taft One fea-
ture of the work of the committee is
unique. 1t is enabled TO devote all
money collected for relief work to
the immediate cause for which it is
given. Expenses for collection, print
ing, postage and administration and
the transmitting of funds. are met
privately. Distribution of all supplies
is cared for by the American Consul
lar forces and American missionaries.
whose services are loaned for this
ministry"