The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-11-27
]. II. BURKE WILL
LEAD CAMPAIGN

The remotest place on the continent
, IN these stirring days is not too Sc
, cluded to feel the world-thrill and
i to have part in the great movements
that are making the world a better
! place to live in, and alternating its
suffering. Mr.. ]. H. Burke has been
chosen by the Georgia State Sunday
School Association and the Internal
ional Sunday School Association, with
headquarters in Chicago, as the local
leader Of campaign looking toward
a CONFERENCE.-THE Sunday School Wis
ltat1on Day, December first, when ev-
cry Sunday School in North America
will be visited by a representative OF
the Organized Sunday School Move
ment, in behalf of the suffering thous-
ands in Bible lands.
christian North America is being
called on at this time to pour out its
money for Liberty loans and for war
activities Of every kind 1t is respnod-
ing nobly, Another challenging call,
however, is sounding in the ears Of
the Christian people of North Ameri-
ca. 1t is the cali OF over two million
people in Bible lands-Armenians
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
and deported. Men have been sepa-
rated from their families and ruthless
ly murdered. Attractive women and
girls have been sold as slaves or tax,
en- by the Turks. The rest of the
women and the children have been
driven into the mountains and the de-
sert, 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, de-
portation, exposure and disease But
the dead no longer challenge us; it is
those who live and can yet be saved.
The ravages 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 or
phans. 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 DEM
onstration of that Christianity. All
the Denominations have united to
answer this call from the East and
a campaign has been launched to raise.
two million dollars from the Sunday
Schools of North America. Every
Sunday School is asked to give
Christmas Season offering to Ar
menian and Syrian Relief 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 cchool visited on December
first for the purpose of explaining the
need, creating enthusiasm and pledg-
ing the schools to make as large an
offering as possible. The International
Sunday School Association in this
campaign is working in cooperation
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 dol
lars
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
CT the Continent and its work has
been highly endorsed by President
Wilson, and Sir Robert Borden, the
Premier of Canada, and by Mr. Roos-
evelt and Mr. Taft One feature of
the work of the committee is unique
1t is enabled to devote all money col
lected for relief work to the imme-
diate cause for which it is given. Ex-
penses for collection, printing, post
age and administration and the trans
hitting of funds, are met privately.
Distribution of all supplies is cared
for by the American Consular forces