A Door of Hope to the Helpless-
Jy Poor: How Famine Children Are Cared For From ea Correspondent.
Chinkiang, Nov. 6.
On behalf of the children we gratefully acknowledge the kind and liberal response to the statement of the extreme need of the orphanage that appeared in the columns of the "'North-China Daily News" last September. Through this and the efforts of a few friends the monthly shortage of $250 for September and October has been made up. We are encouraged to believe that the deficit of $1,000 at the end of August may soon be met.
Through the courtesy of the Editor we are privileged again to inform the friends of the conditions.
It is possible that some readers did not see the former articles so we may be forgiven for some repetition of the facts.
Of the present number in the home of 130 the majority were rescued in the last great famine in North China, where hundreds of children were preserved alive through the kind favour of the Christian Herald! Famine Relief Committee. Later -250 of the' most dependent were received into orphanages, 150 coming to Chinkiang. Through the further favour of the above named Committee, and also that of the Shanghai and Tientsin Famine Relief Committees, provision was made for housing and temporary support. Our expectation—to secure pennament support has only partly been realized, which accounts for the present shortage. It is hoped thatthe statement of the situation now sent to the home-lands will result in rolley ing the situation. It may be e: plained that one cause partly plaining situation is that through reasons beyond our control the work has had! to be conducted i dependent. of any mission socie for the past. five years, and censequently we have no representative in any of the home-lands A STRANGE INCIDENT, One incident connected with the transfer of the children from the famine district to Chinkiang is most interesting. It has always been a. marvel how the children, some of them not far removed from babyhood, willingly, gladly and trustingly left their native district with a foreigner they had never seen before. Crowded in carts they passed through the.streets of Weihsien, Chihli, singing Gospel hymns they had Tear ed since their rescue, one we remember distinctly being, "Take the name of Jesus with you." Perhaps their willingness to leave was caused by the memory of the bela and hunger their little bodies
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