The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-21
Draw Out Thy Soul to the Hungry,
and Satisfy the Afflicted"

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maryrdom have only hope of salvation from their
nightmare of crucifiXon. That hope is YOU-Amer
cans!
Thousands persisted when Smyrna was bathed in
torrents Of blood Now the city is vast sepuchre of
ashes You do nothing for the dead But the lives
of half million others are yours today for the pur
chase They stretching their hands to you out
of the horrible pit. Lift them up to life
The appeal in their behalf which comes to you from
the President of the United States is to be Needed be-
you one of the greathearted Americans to
whom his letter is written. The appeal from the Near
East Relief and the American Red Cross through their
chairman is to be Needed because your open to
such a call for help in this terrible emergency. But
stronger than the call of President orof Relief Com
mttees, stronger than any urgent words The Liter
airy Digest say to you, knowing we'll your unfa
ing tenderness and quick generosity when the hunger
and and gaunt suffering of mothers and babes
cry out to you to comfort, and to them alive
stronger than all written spoken appeal is the hot
eager demand of your sympathetic heart that
not regard such bitter pain and need without sranng
to the utmost for their instant relief.
The picture is so full of terror and anguish words
can not portray it. Mark O. Prentiss, for the Near
East Relief cables II have seen terrible sights until
my senses are numb, but the sight of 100000 people,
mostly and children, being penned up and burn
ing, and those escaping being driven to barren devas
tated country for starvation, is past all comprehension
That in Smyrna. Hundreds of thousands more
both Christians and Jews fleeing from persecution and
the sword are crowdng the other ports of Asia and
the nearby islands of the sea awaiting rescue-Or
DEATH In SalOniki a hundred thousand are herded in
deplorabe confusion. The city has been in ruins since
the great fire of 1918 and affords little shelter
than Smyrna. In the island of Mityene another hun
dred thousand penniless fugtves have sought refuge
only to find there danger of pestlence and
convenient harbor of starvation
Panic has seized upon the frightened wanderers
Many have even cast themselves into the flames of
their own homes. Food is gone, water to drink
is at premium Families broken up, while parents
in frenzy of despair seek their lost children Hun
dreds of mothers have given premature birth to infants
in the midst of terror and death. Halffed babies
cred with Scurvy try in vain to draw nOuriShment from
their mothers empty breasts.
Quick compassion is needed; delay means death for
scores of thousands who might be saved. Something
heroic in giving is needed. You not there in the
midst of the terror and the frantic cries for help If
you were you would leap into the sea- if need be-
brave the flames the sword the plague snatch back
from death some helpless little child. You
would not them perish in agony before your eyes
you could save them, even at the risk of life
Here in this smiling land of comfort where your home
is safe and your loved dwell in peace that same
terror and anguish of helpless and children
to you the and call to all that heroic
and generous in your heart.
"Whoso hath this worlds good and seeth his
brother have need and shutteth up his bowels of
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