Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-05

ment, and the messages are broadcasted to us from
the very throne of Heaven :
No mistake can be more tragic at this moment
than for you to say, as you read, The call is not to
me; ! cannof-lneed not respond this time; others
wilLRfve, and the children will not have to die"
There are no okhers-ifF you turn away.
The appeal has gone Throughout the length and
breadth of this great land, and these Others.
have heard it and some have given gladly; but
too many have said, II need not respond this
time" During the past four months not enough
has been given to continue the care even of those
children already gathered into the hospitals and
orphanages, while thousands moro are waiting to
be picked up" from the streets and countryside.
There are no others-if you refuse. Armenia
is surrounded by bankrupt nations, or nations
struggling to keep themselves from bankruptcy.
Europe is full of suffering and need. Armenia:s
only hope is America. A Christian race tDW die
if America fails at this. crisis.
There are no Others to love- and care for
Armenia's little children-no others but you. The
vast majority are orphans. Father is dead; mother.
too. is dad; sister-if not dead IS praying God for
death; brother is dead; aunt and uncle, grandfather
and grandmother-al dead, the home destroyed,
and the lonely little girl or boy has no ons-but
you. You are father, and mother, and sister, and
brother the only one IN. whose heart the sad
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How splendidlF : you have given. perhaps.
sometime in the past and have brought health
and laughter to some Of Armenia's little. ~suferersf
But for every one saved then, at least one other
was left without food, or shelter. or friends. And
the child to whom you gave one meal a day last
year can not live now if that meal is stopped
A year ago the delivery of supplies for the Alex
andropol orphanage was interrupted between Nov
ember and May by transportation difficulties. Be-
fora Anil <fo cfi1dron had n ho r1acod M half
rations, and by the first of May. on the very
morning the supply train arrived, the last meagef
ration was distributed. During those sad weeks.
when there was so little food at. Alexandropol.
more than two thousand children died.
If you withhold your, gift now, the boys and
girls you fed last year, may be tho very ones
sentenced to Idle"
Revoke the cruel sentenced Stop the order
to reduce all relief work twenty-five percentl
time to give life in place of death, health in place
Of sickness. laughter in place Of tears. You can
speak the word Of Resurrection which will call
back some little child from the dark valley Of
shadow and food its new life with sunshine. 4
Two things will fill your Easter Day with
sweetest joy: the knowledge that Armenias chill
dren did not wait for you, and trust in you, and
appeal to you in vain; and the voice Of the Risen.
Christ, the Lover of little children. speaking to
your soul, and saying, Eye have done it unto Me.
Ye have done it unto Me-"
So deeply have we, as publishers of THE
LITERARY DIGEST, been stirred by the tragedy
impending among the innocent children Of Anne
MIA, that we would feel a heavy share of respon-
sibility for the needless death Of countless little ones
if we did not do as we are urging you to do. and
give, still again. a substantial contribution to save
their lives. Therefore, altho we have given several
times before, we feel that we can Motive must not
-do1 lace a., the NroSo~% ~rscsc <hoN odd irnrnojsofo1u
another five thousand dollars to help save the chill
dren of Armenia from the death that threatens them
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