Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-10-21
"Draw Out Thy Soul to the HUI
and Satisfy the Afflicted

from hm"-ah but the Master did not mean YOU Your
heart is warm with compassion and your hand will be
open wide with help. Perhaps you Will fee moment
OF shudderng pity for those shrivec souls if there be
any such IN this land of plenty who revel in abundance
and refuse to share it, to whom the Master said "Woe
unto you that are full for We shall hunger Woe unto
YOU that laugh now! for We shall weep" And then you
will seize gladly upon that other divine word Of the
Christ and send the with your speedy gifts
to comfort and and your gifts will make good the
MESSAGE Blessed yc that hunger now; for We shall
be filed Blessed are We that weep now; for We shall
taught"
The Literary Digest well knows your good works. it
well Knows that YOU treess and always ready to
save and TO comfort You will respond instantly to
this call What The Digest has done while waiting to
tell you the facts has been done in utter faith in YOU
and in your overwhelming response. The great ship
Contarf has discharged it's load of food and the starv
ing fugltves have already eaten the bread baked from
the flour in that cargo 1t is you who did this because
when on September 25th committee Of the Near East
Relief, the Y. NJ. c. A. and the Y W. c. A. called upon
The Literary Digest to help in this awful emergency
and no funds were then available, discounted our
faith in you and borrowed the $4,000 and bought the
entire food cargo of the Clonarf. We told the com
mlttee to keep on buying other shploads Of food until
the pitifu need satisfied. "Ee gives twice who
gives quickly and we confidently depending upon
you to make this act your by great oupouring of
gifts pay for this first cargo of food and to follow it
with others. We appeal to all the churches in America
that have been the repositories of the sacred ideal of
our nation; appeal to the thinking and working
classes OF our Dftad land to all the institutions and
organizations that have for their object the safeguard
ing of human rights and human lives AS God has
blessed you. as He has given you happy homes and
laughing children as He has been mercfu to YOU have
mercy upon these, His people.
The Literary Digest, standing shoulder to shoulder
and heart to heart with you in this urgent task will
start the fund with its contribution Of $4,000 to
help feed these starving fugitves. And now we urge
all who read these words to send perfect storm of
checks to provide food and shelter and medical care
for the half million sufferers in this awful inferno of
the Near East.
They can never repay you-those homeless ones
those tortured women and ptiful children. You will
never see them face to face, look into their ewes
shining with gratitude never? Yes, perhaps YOU will
But now, the blessed Christ bids you give and He will
repay for was He who said "Do good and lend hoping
for nothing again and your reward shall be great and
yc shall be the Children Of the Highest
President Harding has appointed as a Special Com
mttee with VIII II. Hayes Chairman, the following
representatives Of eight national organizations who
Will cooperate in this great work OF relief Dr. John
K. Mott, Of the \. NJ. c. A.; Mrs John French of the
Y. w. Z. A.; James A. Flaherty Of the Knights of Co.
lumbus; Felix Warblrg, Of the Jewish Joint Distribu-
ton Committees Dr. Robert f. Specr, Of the Federal
Council Of the Churches of Christ in America; Dr. James
L. Barton, Of the Near East Relief Herbert Hoover of
the American Relief Administration; Judge John
Barton Payne, OF the American Red Cross: and r J
Cuddihy, of The Literary Digest