The New York herald., 1922-04-13
rom LhD Digest H
Sentenced To Die

ment and the messages are broadcast to us from
the very throne of Heaven
No mistake can be more tragic at this moment
than for you say, as you read, The call is not to
me; can mott need not respond this tirne others
will give and the children will not have to die.
There are no Others if 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, ''Ineed not respond this time
During the past four months not enough has been
given to continue the Of those children
already gathered into the hospitals and orphan
ages, while thousands more are waiting to be
picked up" from the streets and countryside.
There are no others-if you refuse Armenia
is surrounded with 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 Uil die
fAmerica fails at this crisis.
There are no others to love and care for
Armena's little children-no others but you The
vast majority orphans. Father is dead; mother,
too, is dead; sister-if not dead is praying God for
death brother is dead; aunt and uncle grandfather
and grandmother all dead, the home destroyed,
and the lonely little girl or boy has one-but
you. You are father, and mother and sister, and
brother-the only one in whose heart the sad
little waif now find refuge.
How splendidly you have given, perhaps,
some time in the past, and have brought health and
laughter to some of Arnenia's little sufferers!
But for every saved then, at least one other
was left without food shelter, or friends. And
the child to whom you gave one meal day last
year can not live now if that meal is stopped.
year ago the delivery of supplies for the Alexan-
Lo+xxro
Der and May by transportation difficulties. Be-
fore April the children had to be placed half
rations and by the first of May, on the very morn
ing the supply train arrived, the last meager ration
was distributed During those sad weeks, when
there was SO little food at Alexandropol
than tsOo thousand children died
If you withhold your gift now, the boys and
girls you fed last year may be the very
sentenced to die.
Revoke the cruel sentenced Stop the order
to reduce all relief work twenty-five percent!
Thank God 1t is IN your poIDer 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 word 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 Arnenia's 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, publishers of THE
LITERARY DIGEST, been stirred by the tragedy
impending among the innocent children of Arme-
MA that we would feel heavy share Of respon-
sibility for the needless death of countless little
ones if we did not do as we urging you to do,
and p;xe Stil1 ,oaip substantial cortrib,,tior "a