The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-11-21
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
To HAVE A PART
HELP CARRY ON ARMENIAN AND
SYRIAN RELIEF WORK
ASKED TO RAISE 100000
Immediate Help Needed Among Refu.
gees in Asia Minor as in all
of the War Ridden
Countries.

The remotest place on the entire
continent in these stirring day,
is not too secluded to feel the world
thrill, and to have part in the great
movements that are making the worlC
a better place to live in, and alleviat
ing it's suffering" said w. J. Howell
recently. Mr.. Howell has been chosen
by the Iowa State Sunday School AS
sociation and the International Sun
day school Association, with headquar
ters in Chicago, as the leader of 8
campaign looking toward Continent
Wide Sunday School Visitation Day
in December when every Sunday
School in North America will be visit
ed by representative of the organ
ICED Sunday School Movement, in be
half of the suffering thousands in
Bible lands.
Call on Bible Lands.
Christian North America" said Mr.
Howell sis 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, 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-Armenians, Syrians and Greeks
of Asia Minor.
Prosecuted Must Be Helped
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 separ-
ated 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 wom-
en- and the children have been driven
into the mountains and the desert,
and the path over which these refu-
gees 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.
American Funds Needed.
THE ravages of war the past year
have added to the horror. The Turkish
armies have destroyed everything in
their wake. Four million people desti-
tute of home, clothed only in rags, are
facing the cold of winter and starya-
ton. One million of these can be
reached by relief agencies. Four hun
ored thousand of them are orphans.
The relief agencies can do nothing un-
less North America furnishes the mon
ey.
THE land where christianity had
it's birth is asking for practical DEM
onstration of that Christianity now.
All the Denominations have united to
answer this call from the East and
has been launched to raise
two million dollars from the Sunday
Schools of North America Every Sun
day School is asked to give a Christ.
mas Season offering to Armenian and
Syrian Relief work
Sunday Schools to Help.
ITO 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 in December for
the purpose of explaining the need,
enthusiasm and pledging the
schools to make as large an Offering
as possible. The International Sunday
School Association in this campaign is
in cooperation with the Ar.
menian and Syrian Relief Committee
in New York, and the Two Million
which they are to raise "A part of
larger campaign on the Part of the
Committee for Thirty Million Dol.
lars.
Relief Work Endorsed.
"The Armenian and Syrian Relief
Committee have already done a 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 It's work has been
highly endorsed by President Wilson,
and Sir Robert Borden, the Premier of
Canada and by Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr..
Taft. One feature of the work Of the
Committee is unique. It Is enabled to
devote all money collected for relief
work to the immediate cause for which
1t is given. Expenses for collection,
printing. postage and administration
and the transmitting of funds, are
met privately. Distribution of all sup
plies is cared for by the American
Consular forces and American mission
aries, whose services are loaned for
this ministry"
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