The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1919, Page 3

“1 = iY ot Dear Friend: Another little child has shrivelled up and died! Read it thoughtfully- The mother, creeping back, gaunt and cola, from the desert, has put down the thin little bones with those that strew the road, so-many~miles, and has ak beside them, never to rise again. prayerful * Only a little child, and a mother, out on the bleak Armenian e . é road = but what is that Vision hovering there - and what is-that Voive the. In in this lad cold winds bear to the ears of our souls- "I was hungry and ye gave me no . meat =I was naked, and ye clothed me not?® Ch . To-day - yes, to-day- while we are preparing our gifts for Shrist- ristmas season, mis, gay. ores of ‘thane little children-not a hundred, nor a thousand, but f h e two hundred and fifty thousand of them-are still wandering uncared for and wr alone in that dead land, “their weazened skins clinging in fear to their ce) t e misery ove* rattling bones", and they are crying out with gasping breath, "I am hungry! e . hungry!" And the Voice of One who watches us as we prepare t ere, in tk e DDE. 2 I am hungry! gifts to celebrate His Birthday, comes again to the ears of our souls- ®I an hungry! i am hungry! i am hungry!" os l] nd Now the children, and the mothers of Armenia are dreading the a Ss. winter. “Just human remnants, they are,.not protected, many of them, from °. ° the elements by even the dignity of rags." : en, Ive — give —_ But _we can feed and clothe those perishing ones-— some of them- il e h b a pefore 1t 1s too late. Herbert Hoover cabled from the Caucasus: "It 19 not t1 it urts, ut. impossible that the loss of 200,000 lives can at thia day be prevented, but the remaining 500,000 can possibly be saved.” They need not starve, and till it Blesses freeze and die if we will sav We freese and die if we will save them Open now your heart and purse. They need’ not die! Give ye them to eat! Toeday nearly eight hundred thousand destitute Armenians - fie people -need food and clothing. He took little children in His arms and blessed them To-day will you take one, or more, of those sad, cold, hungry little ohildren of Armenia into your arms and heart, in His name, and give thes food, and warmth and life? - hb have 4 ° : ity! brotereas se tn ee ee ete ue. lone it unto one of the least of these CLEVELAND H. DODGE Faithfully yours, TREASURER a Mira tater,” 77 Taf 1 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK CITY oe THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY RUSSELL-MILLER MILLING COMPANY | BISMARCK BANK BISMARCK REALTY COMPANY FIRST NATIONAL BANK CITY NATIONAL BANK Send Your Contributions to _H. P. Beckwith, Northern Savings Bank, State Treasurer, Fargo, N. D. Sf LES ARRAS ALIS ARAL ALAIN HPN EE CAEN I!