The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-05-10


What are. few paltry miles of dis
| tance! They can not separate you
from that famine stricken land, where |
| dead and dying children litter the city
streets. They cannot shut out from
your vision those hunger -pinchcd |
faces and outstrctchcd hands! You
can shut your windows, as they did,
III very desperation, in the city of |
| Erivan; but the walls and means of |
little children, waiting in rain and
snow, by day and night, to be "picked |
up" and clothed and fed, cannot be |
shut out Of your heart.
From far-away stations, by the |
magic of science, our homes are being |
filled with song, and story and music |
for the dance. But there are mes
sages more wonderful than any con
trolled by the wizards of wireless.
They are coming now from far away,
and the story they bring is burdened
with tears. The music is not for dane
stand upon their feet. The song,
swellcd to Il chorus of woe by thou
sands of little voices that ought to be
musical with laughter, is always the !
same: Hunger! Bread!" And with !
the pleading cry Of the children, there
comes a voice sweet and solemn,
saying: "These are MY little ones
yc are My s pherds; Feed My
| Lambs"
TO catch these messages, every
American heart that has thrilled at
the laughter of Il little child or
throbbcd at its cry Of pain, is the re-
ceiving instrument, and the messages
arc broadcastcd 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, "Thc call is not to me;
cannot I need not respond this
time; others will give, and tic chill
dren will not have to dit"
There are no othcrs-if you turn
away. The appeal has gone through
out the length and breadth of this
great land, and these "othcrs" have
heard it and some have given gladly;
but too many have said, 81 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 more are waiting to be
'pickcd up from the streets and
countryside.
There are no othcrs-if you refuse
Armenia is surrounded by bankrupt
nations, or nations struggling to keep
themselves from bankruptcy. Eu-
rope is full of suffering and need. Ar
mcnias only hope is America. a
Christian race will die if America
fails at this crisis. |
| There are no others to love and
care for Armcnia's little chldren-no
others but you. The vast majority are
orphans. Father is dead; mother, too,
| is dead; siStcr-if not dead, is pray
nG God for death; brother is dead
aunt and uncle, grandfather and
%randmothcr--all dead, the home de-
stroycd, and the lonely little girl or
boy has no onc--but you. You are
! father and mother and sister and
| brother-thc only one i'm whose heart
the sad little waif can now find
refuge.
How splcndidly you have given, per-
haps, sometime in the past, and have
! brought health and laughter to some
Of Armeaia's sufferers! 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 Il day last year
cannot live now if that meal is
stopped. A year ago the delivery Of
supplies for the Alexandropol orphan |
age was interrupted between Novcm-
bcr and May be transportation diff |
cultics. Before April the children
had to be placed on half rations, and |
by the first of May, ON the very
morning the supply train arrived, the
last mcagcr ration was distributed.
During those sad weeks, when there
was SO little food at A'cxandropol,
more than two thousand children died. |
If you withhold your gift now, the
| boys and girls you fed last year may
be the very ones "scntcnccd to die"
Revoke the cruel sentence! Stop
| the order to reduce all relief work |
| twenty-five per cent! Thank God it
| is in your power at this Easter time
to give life in place Of death, health in
| place of sickness, laughter in place Of
tears. You can speak the wortd of
| Resurrection, which will call back
| some little child from the dark valley
Of shadow and flood it's new life with
sunshine.
Two things will fill your Easter
| Day with sweetest joy: the knowledge
! that Armenia's children 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 chill
| dren, speaking to your soul, and say
| ing, aye have done it unto Me. Ye
have done it unto Me-"
So deeply are we, publishers Of the
The Manning Times, stirred by the
tragedy impending among the inno-
cent children Of Armenia, that we
would feel a heavy share Of RESPONSE
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