China’s Pit :£ ul A ppeal for Bread 
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MILLIONS HELPLESS MEN, WOMEN AND 
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CHILDRF" g /iT THE POINT OF STARVATION 
“Give, and it shall 
be given unto you” 
"Blessed is he that 
Considereth the poor” 
A Staggering Calamity 
riillion^ at Death’s Door 
Unless America, the land of unparalleled 
prosperity, speedily sends relief to the 
starving millions of China, the most frightful 
tragedy of the Twen¬ 
tieth Century will be 
enacted, and millions 
of helpless human 
beings will perish for 
the want of a crust of 
bread. 
The calamity that 
has befallen these 
peaceful, industrious 
people is not of their 
own creation. Rain 
fell, as in the days of 
Noah, for forty days 
without a break; the 
waters overflowed a 
hundred miles to the 
east and a hundred miles to the west, a 
hundred miles to the north and a hundred 
Your cablegram received last night. We are 
greatly rejoiced that The Christian Herald is at 
work for us in the homeland. This inspires hope. 
Shall These Little Lambs Per ish ? 
Dr. J. Sumner Stone, the well known 
pastor of a Methodist church in New York 
City, and now traveling in China, writes 
The Christian Herald as follows: 
Fifteen million people are already in the grasp of 
famine. Seven millions are now helpless. They 
are living on a gruel made of beans and sweet 
potato leaves. Even this will soon lie gone. Already 
the people are drowning or giving opium to their 
aged relatives and their children, and selling their 
little girls into nameless slavery. I love children 
too much to see them exposed to hunger or shame 
without crying loudly to their friends to come to 
their help. It is not the will of our heavenly 
Father that one of these little ones should perish. 
Human Flesh Actually Sold for_Fqod 
A correspondent of the Echo says: 
In two districts, Sinchow and Paichow, starv¬ 
ing and desperate people are eating their chil Iren, 
all the plants, grasses and roots having been ex¬ 
hausted. This correspondent adds that there have 
been many cases of cannibalism. Human flesh was 
actually being sold for food, although the ghoulish 
traffic was conducted secretly. 
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT CONTRIBUTES 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE 
WASHINGTON 
Dear Doctor Klopsch: Feb. 1, 1907. 
The President has asked me to say to you that 
he is much interested in your work to raise funds 
for the sufferers by the present dreadful famine 
in China. He hopes that you will meet with the 
same success that you have had in similar appeals 
to the humanity and liberality of our people. 
As a contribution to the fund he has handed me 
his check for $100, which I enclose, together with 
a similar check of my own. With best wishes, 1 
am. Very sincerely yours. 
Dr. Louis Klopsch, ELJHU ROOT. 
The Christian Herald, New York City. 
food, she fell an easy prey to the fever and died 
by the side of the road, clasping tightly her little 
child. For two days the little living child was left 
in its dead mother’s arms. Who on that road, with 
hunger and fever driving them on, could stop to 
heed even the cry of a helpless baby ? 
They Are Looking This Way 
For many years godly men and women have 
pointed these people to the Saviour, and countless 
thousands have accepted him and have been bap- 
our Master whom we serve bid them share with us 
the bounties of our heavenly Father's goodness? 
Help Them to Help Others 
Missionaries now working in China have been so 
affected by the scenes of heartrending suffering 
which they have been compelled to witness that, 
though their hearts are breaking, their tears refuse 
to flow. • 
They themselves have given all they had and all 
they could borrow, and now they arc daily inditing 
pathetic communications, and sending them broad¬ 
cast, with the fervent prayer that God would move 
the hearts of their more fortunate brothers and 
sisters in distant lands to contribute largely in this 
hour of China’s direst need, and thus help them to 
help those who are looking to them for salvation 
from impending death. 
The Continent of Our Saviour’s Birth 
This pathetic cry for bread comes from 
the continent of Asia, concerning which 
the late Dr. Talmage said: 
Egypt gave to us its monuments, Rome gave to 
us its law, Germany gave to us its philosophy, but 
Asia gave to us its Christ. His mother an Asiatic; 
the mountains that looked down upon him. Asiatic; 
the lakes on whose pebbly hanks he rested and on 
whose chopped waves he walked, Asiatic; the 
apostles whom he first commissioned, Asiatic; the 
audiences he whelmed with his illustrations drawn 
Save U* or We Perish! 
miles to the south, sub¬ 
merging farms, destroy¬ 
ing crops, uprooting 
houses, and leaving 
despair, destruction and 
starvation in their track. 
God help us to help 
them! 
from blooming lilies and salt 
crystals and great rainfalls, 
and bellowing tempests, and 
hypocrites’ long faces, and 
croaking ravens—all those 
audiences Asiatic. Christ, 
during his earthly stay, was 
hut once outside of Asia. 
Let All Join Hands 
Killing the Aged 
Thus forty thousand 
square miles were sub¬ 
jected to this prolonged 
deluge, and fifteen 
millions of people be¬ 
came impoverished. So 
intense is the suffering 
now that parents kill 
their children by throw¬ 
ing them in the rivers, 
or by administering poi¬ 
son, and after this des¬ 
perate act they take 
their own lives. 
Many aged people are 
being drowned to pre¬ 
vent their death by the 
agonies of starvation. 
Everywhere throughout 
the length and breadth 
of the afflicted provinces 
people are dying in the 
fields, on the roads, and 
in the streets, literally 
falling in their tracks a 
prey to starvation. These 
deaths foot up in the 
thousands daily. 
BoysSeHat$2A)0 
Girls at $3.00 
One of the most pitiful 
phases is the uncontrolla¬ 
ble grief of parents, who, 
in sheer desperation, sell 
their children for a mere 
pittance, and then, when they realize what 
they have done, like Rachel of old, refuse 
to he comforted, and plead with the pur¬ 
chaser for the restoration of their dear ones, 
offering themselves to undergo servitude 
that their darlings might be set at liberty. 
Actual cases are known in which girls have 
been sold for $3.00 and boys for $2.00, 
Mexican, which means half that amount in 
American money. 
Little Children rioaning for Food 
Rev. Dr. T. F. McCrea, Treasurer of the 
Missionary Relief Committee, writes: 
Leaves and coarse mill feed, ordinarily given 
only to hogs, now sell for as much as good food 
usually costs. Trade is paralyzed. People are home¬ 
less, listless, hopeless. Furniture and clothing— 
what little was saved from the cruel flood—are 
sacrificed and the poverty-stricken parents hear 
the hungry children cry and moan in the night 
while they themselves crouch helplessly on a damp 
mat in some remote corner. 
I think of that day when Christ fed the hungry 
five thousand, and I wonder if Christ’s people will 
follow in His footsteps, and have compassion on 
these hungry thousands in China, who mustlperish 
with cold and hunger unless we help them. 
A SECTION OF THE GREAT FAMINE CAMP OF 450,000 STARVING NATIVES AT TSINGKIANGPU, CHINA 
This photograph, forwarded by the Missionary Committee at Chinkiang, shows only a part of the vast camp. The huts are built of mats 
and mud. In this camp, the deaths from freezing and starvation have already reached the appalling flgureof over 200 a night, or at the rate 
of 75,000 a year. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands and possibly millions must perish unless substantial aid comes to the rescue. 
The Worst Famine in 40 Years 
The Viceroy of one of the afflicted provinces 
states that the famine is “ten times worse than 
any known in the last forty years.” He tells of a 
family consisting of husband, wife and two chil¬ 
dren. The mother went foraging for food, and dur¬ 
ing her absence the father threw the children into 
the river and drowned them. On her return the 
mother asked for her children, and was told that 
the father could not bear to see them gradually 
starving to death, and as there was no chance of 
feeding them, he made away with them. The 
mother, greatly distressed, flung herself into the 
river, following her children. The head of the 
family, in utter despair at the loss of his all, took 
his life also. The whole family thus perished. 
Alive In Her Dead Mother’s Arms 
A correspondent of the Shanghai Mer¬ 
cury, after visiting the famine districts, 
writes: 
Your correspondent saw the famine here in ’98, 
and it was awful. He has often said since that 
he hoped he would never have to see another, hut 
all agree that it is going to he worse this time than 
it was then. Many herfc are sick from what they 
are eating, and the color of the skin is already 
darkening and is quite noticeable. 
A woman was traveling with her baby girl a year 
old. Weakened by her long journey and lack of 
tized in the Faith. Indeed, the cause of Christ 
is making wondrous progress among the dense pop¬ 
ulation of China, and now that disaster has be¬ 
fallen . hem and death is threatening them, what 
wonder that they are hoping for help from this 
country whence hail the missionaries, who have 
told them again and again the beautiful story of 
one Jesus who went about doing good, who fed 
the multitudes, and whose followers in this pros¬ 
perous country are walking in the footsteps of 
their Master, daily testing their lives by the stand¬ 
ard In established, and ever asking themselves. 
What would Jesus do ? 
Let Us Help Them Quickly 
And nhall they look in vain? Shall they be dis¬ 
appoint :d ? Shall we lead them to believe that our 
religion is mere profession? Shall we shut up the 
bowels of our compassion and tell them that Amer¬ 
ican money and American grain are for Americans 
only—that religion is one thing and charity quite 
another ? Or shall we open our hearts, our hands, 
our purses and our granaries, and in the name of 
Let every community be 
represented. Let every 
Church, Sunday School, 
Home and Foreign Mission 
Society do its share. Let 
Sunday School Officers, 
Teachers and Scholars vie 
with each other in hastening 
to the rescue of this unfor¬ 
tunate people. This is one 
of the greatest opportunities 
to do good in the Master’s 
name. We are His almoners. 
He gave up all for us, and 
now through these starving 
ones he claims a share of 
what he has entrusted to 
our care. Are we unjust 
stewards? God forbid ! 
Help or They Perish 
We urge upon every reader 
to join this life-saving crew 
and to throw out to these 
starving people the life-line, 
before it is too late. Pray 
that God’s people every¬ 
where may realize Itlie im¬ 
portance and urgency of the 
case and may willingly and 
cheerfully give, even as God 
lias prospered them. 
Young People’s Societies, 
Epworth Leagues, Christian 
Endeavorers,work earnestly; 
for the night of death threat¬ 
ens to enshroud a continent. 
You can give the clouds a 
silver lining and you will do 
it. This is the King’s busi¬ 
ness. It requires haste. Every 
day’s delay will prove fatal. 
Let us then be up and doing. 
He that sitteth in the 
heavens watches. H is eye is 
upon us. What we do let us 
do it as unto Him, and he 
that seeth in secret and rewardeth openly will bless 
us with an everlasting blessing. 
The Daughters of the King 
There are in every community godly womerr,, 
sympathetic and kind; consecrated women, who. 
long to do good, as they have opportunity, and to. 
aid the poor, the suffering and the distressed. We: 
can look confidently to them for aid at this time. 
They can work, they can speak, they can plead 1 , 
pray and give. May God call them to this mission 
and graciously prosper the work of their hearts 
and their hands. 
Every contribution for the relief of the 
great Famine in China will be promptly ac¬ 
knowledged in The Christian Herald. 
Collection Lists, Slips, Return Envel¬ 
opes, etc., sent FREE on application. 
Also instructions on HOW TO FORM 
A LOCAL RELIEF COMMITTEE. 
Address as below. 
The China Famine Relief Fund 
Under the direction of THE CHRISTIAN HERALD 
259-267 BIBLE HOUSE, NEW YORK CITY 
