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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 24, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 43, No. 15.

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Famine in India

The famine is likely to prove as sweeping in India this year, as it was in Persia last year. The cause, too, is much the same in both cases, which is lightness of rainfall. One correspondent estimates that 40,000,000 persons will be affected in India in a greater or less degree by the scarcity of food. The difficulty is aggravated by two other causes, namely: the difficulty of reaching the sufferers with supplies, by any practicable means of communication; and also by the peculiar religious and social customs and prejudices of the Hindoos, which lead them to prefer starvation rather than eat the food which would perhaps do them most good.—Battle Creek Journal.