The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-21

passion from him'-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
feel moment of shuddering pity for those shriVeled
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 1t the sea
with your speedy gifts to comfort and save and your
gifts will make good the message Blessed are ye
that hunger for shall be filled Blessed are ye
that weep now for ye shall laugh!
The Literary Digest well knows your good works;
it we'll knows that you are treless and always ready
to save and to comfort. You will respond III
stantly 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 Clontarf has discharged its load OF food
and the starving fugtves have already eaten the bread
baked from the flour IN that cargo. 1t is who cid
this because when, September 25h, committee of
the Near East Relief, the Y M. c. A. and the Y. w c.
A. called upon The Literary Digest to help in this awful
emergency, and no funds then available dis
counted faith you and borrowed the SLIGO and
bought the entire food cargo of the Contarf We told
the committee to keep buying other Sh1ploads of
food until the pitiful need satisfied. "He gives
twice who gives quickly" and we confidently de-
pending upon you to make this act your by great
oupourng of gifts to 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 ideals of nation; appeal to the
thinking and working classes of broad land to all
the institutions and organizations that have for their
object the safeguarding of human rights and human
lives. AS God has blessed you, He has given you
happy homes and laughing children, as He has been
merclful 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 fugitives. And now urge
all who read these words to send perfect storm of
checks to provide food, and shelter and medical
for the half million sufferers in this awful inferno of
the Near East.
They can never repay you-these homeless Ones
those tortured women and pitiful children. You will
see them face to face, look into their eyes
shining with grattude-never? Yes perhaps you will.
but now the blessed Christ bids you give, and He will
repay, for it was he who said, DO good and lend,
hoping for nothing again. and your reward shall be
great and we shall be the Children of the Highest
President Harding has appointed Special Com
mittee, with Will H. Hays Chairman, the following
representatives of eight national organizations who
will cooperate in this great work of relief: DR.. John
R. Mott, of the Y. NJ C. A.. Mrs Joe French of the
Y W. c. A.; James A. Flaherty, of the Knights of
Columbus; Felix Warburg Of the Jewish Joint Distr-
button COMMITTEES DR.. Robert Speer, 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.