The Archive · 1920

Cry of Forty Millions

SCENES FROM THE FAMINE AREA

Mrs, D. MacGillivray sends us the following tragic extracts from a letter received from Mre. J, Gosforth, of the Canadian Presbyterian Mission in Honan.

My husband and I have just returned from meeting in Conference with the missionaries of the North Honan Mission. The facts we have heard regarding the Great Famine (it is said to be the greatest in memory of living Chinese) simply appel one.

We cannot but believe, in spite of the incessant and great calls for help made these last few years, that this cry which is the life and death cry of 40 millions of the human race, will reach and touch the

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