CHINA FAMINE FUND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2744, 17 October 1906, Page 52

CHINA FAMINE FUND.

Mr John Reid writes to the editor as follows :— Doar Sir, — Those interested in the China Famine Fund are under a deep obligation to your paper for making known the need, but many have asked me regarding it, not having noticed my first letter. Might I restate the facts : (1) The appeal is not for missionary work direct, but is a humanitarian one, for my sister, Mis.s Maggie Reid will distribute help to Christians and heathen alike. (2) She is suffering not through lack in fiie C.1.M., but because she foels it "her duty to share her last meal with those among whom she works. (3) Tho need is appalling. Thousands are dying ; crops ruined : no seed for next year; the people reduced to eating the bark off the trees.

Would you, for tli3 sake of inouirer?, reinseit my sister's statement of the affairs in her district :--

'■ Aniong, China, '•August 24, 1906.

"Our people arc in fearful {-traits, and if it were not that I have had the help for my eld woman I would ask again. Starvation i* staring them in the face. Homeless and friendless, they will have to wander for miles and miles to find a place where the harvest is good. Here it is completely mined. It will take £200 to help my Christians alono to buy seed for them to" put in the crops for next ycaT. For eight days we have had little to eat, and what we had was sour. Friends down south, hearing of this from v?. sent us up com? tinned meats, and sonic flour, for which, though it took the tpint out of us, kc were thankful. We are opening up relief funds, and will take in refugees. We will try and keep tho people clean to prevent disease following famine, and while we have a bite will share with them. Let friends of China know."

Subscriptions Teeeived: — John Eeid, £1; E. C £1; Rev. A. Don. £1; M. A. H.. 10a; For Jesus' Sake. 10s: Miss J. V., ss; W. T., 10s ; James Dow (Outram), £1 ; Crookp-ton, 10s; Thomas Hyndman. £1 Is; Rev. Dr Waddell. £1 Is; Miss il. Reid, ss; Matthew vi, 3, £i. ADDITIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS. Mis A. S. Paterson £3 0 0 1 John, lh, 17 * 10 0 X 10 0 The Rev. A. Don writes as follows: — Sip..— Herewith £1 <o help the Christians at Antong, where Miss Maggie R«id works. Our Chinese Church ses&iou is to meet next Wednesday and I have no doubt it will at least double this donation. — I am. etc., October 10. A. Dos.

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