Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-11-28
Sunday Is Visitation Day


AThe remotest place on the
continent in these stirring days
is not too secluded to feel the
world.,hrill aud to have a part in
the great movements that are
making the world a better place
to live ia, and alleviate its suffer.
ing" said w. c, Pearce of New
York. recently. Mr.. Pearee has
been chosen by the Missouri
State Sunday School Association
and the international Sunday
School Association, with head
Quarters in Chicago, as the lead.
err of a campaign looking toward
a continent wide Sunday School
visitation day, Dec. 1, when ev'
cry Sunday School in North
America will be visited by a rep.
resentative of the organized Sun
day School movement, in behalf
of the suffering thousands in Ri.
bic lands.
"ChriStian North America
said Mr.. Pearce, lis being called
on at this time to pour out it's
money for liberty bonds and for
war service activities of every
kind. 1t is responding nobly.
Another challenging call, howev'
err, is sounding in the ears of the
Christian p ople of North Amer.
lea. 1t is the call 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 en-.
during, such suffering as our
Ame lean minds cannot conceive.
They have been massacred and
deported Men have been sepa.
rated from their families and
ruthlessly 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, ex
posture 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 Turkish armies have de
stroyed everything in their
wake. Four million people, des.
of home, clothed only in
rags, are facing the cold of win.
ter and starvation. One million of
these can be reached by relief
Four hundred thous.
and of them are orphans. The
agencies can do nothing
unless North America furnishes
the money.
1.-THE land where Christianity
had it's birth is asking for a
practical demonstration of that
Christianity now. All the demon.
nations have united to answer
this call from the East and a
campaign has been launched to
raise two million dollars from
he Sunday schools of North
America. Every Sunday School
q America is asked to give a
Christmas season Offering to Ar
nenian and Syrian relief work
TO make sure that no Sunday
school is overlooked in this ap.
zeal, the international Sunday
Association is planning to
AVE every Sunday School visited
n Dec. ! for the purpose of ex.
flaming the need, creating en-.
husiasm and pledging the ,
chools to make as large an offer.
1R as possible. Inc lnternatlOn- &
| Sunday School Association in +
his campaign is working in co.
.eration with the Armenian and {
.yrian relief committee IN New
'ork, and the two million which
hey are to raise is part of a n
.rger campaign on the part OF q
he committee for thirty million 8
:
The Armenian and Syrian re. =
ef committee have already done :
wonderful work in ministering :.
|, thoco o~ufforinu pooplo ond "