Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-01-21
And Jesus said.

If We shall ask anything Of the
Father in my name, He will give it
YOU"
For nineteen centuries this glorious
promise has been a source of comfort
and of strength to countless millions
of the oppressed, the sick, the suffer-
ing, the troubled. and the grievously
b~urdened. These burning words have
been a pillar of fire by night and a
pillar Of cloud by day to the heavily
laden and the sore distrest and to
those multitudes who have passed
through the Valley of the Shadow Of
affliction or death. And now in this
latter day-nay, at this very hour
millions of women and children in
and near those lands. those hills and
rivers made holy by the sacred mem
cries of u Lord. are claiming this
promise and are crying out to Him
in an agony of spirit and body, be-
seeching Him that He in an agony
of spirit and body beseeching Him
that He will saw them from starva-
ton, from death, and from horrors
worse than death, says 1.-THE Literary
Digest"
-Four million Armenians, Syrians,
and other war-sufferers in western
Asia are practically without food.
helpless women and children. More
than a million and a half have been
deported. Nearly Il million have been
brutally murdered and massacred.
Four, hundred thousand children are
|lorphaned. 1t can be said h a there
are practically no more children left
under the age of five, all having per-.
ished from exposure and disease. For
every hundred births there are from
two to three hundred deaths. The
newly BORN children die almost inn
mediately, their mothers having moth
ing to give them but ears. Deaths
from d~ysentery. typhus. tuberculosis,
and famine are increasing from day
to day with appalling rapidity. The
homeless pitiful stream Of women
and children-wander aimlessly'
through the streets of their wrecked
villages. If you stop a child toward
evening and ask him where he is go
ing he will tell you. II am searching
for a place to Sleep"
All winter long they have slept in
hooks and corners, in alleys and by
covering whatever, their clothing the
merest rags. The women clasp their
wan-faced children to their breasts
and on their faces is written the pitt
full story Of their utter despair.
The scenes in these lands of grief
and suffering are beyond the power
OF Imagination to conceive or of words
I ~ =
and breadth of these countries there
is no food save bread. the dry .crusts
of bread that they receive at the
hands of charity. Nc meat. no soups,
no vegetables, no sugar. less than a
pound of bread daily, and yer this
poor morsel has often to be shared
with others. "a poor old woman
writes one Of the devoted workers,
'''Sahib, the bread won't go down.
I oak it in water, but it sticks in my
throat"
There is no joy Of victory in these
distraught lands; but only the cries
of an agonized people to whom peace
has brought neither benediction nor
lands where the war has left an awful
human wreckage in its wake; a great
Kingdom of Grief filled with the cries
of mothers and orphans, a distressed
people PROSTATE with ~desolation, num-
bered with suffering, having no part
nership in the great JOY Of liberated
world. "a "a :
Is No sons, no fathers. no brothers,
are returning, victorious to their
homes in Armenia or Syria, for their
villages and their cities have been
RACED and ruined and lie in dust and
ashes, and the men by the thousands
and hundreds Of thousands have been
p!tllessly murdered OF DdFparousIy ue-
ported. ,
Deported? Yes. but what a eu-
phemism for the most heartless and
relentless cruelty. Deportation
means the loss Of home, business
property, and every. personal possess
sion.s 1t mea being driven into
desert places. forced to march at the
point of the bayonet until strength
is exhausted; It means being refused
shelter. food, drink: 1t means being
subjected to outrage and calculated
Many such scenes Of terrible and
tragic suffering / in the vsry,lands
where Jesus walked with his dis
jciples; where He had compassion on
the needy multitudes. and fed them
and healed them and c~ornforted
them. Many OF these awful sights
are even in the very shadow Of the
Mount of Olives. where Christ said:
Suffer the little children and forbid
them not ITO come unto mes for Of.
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