p. 523 | China’s Famine Relief

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 13, 1901

China’s Famine Relief

A TERRIBLE famine prevails in China over the provinces of Shansi and Shensi, where there are one third as many human beings as fill the whole United States. For several years there has been almost no rainfall, and the famished inhabitants are eating grass, bark, and even each other, to keep alive. A cry for help comes from this death-stricken land to this country, and Christians in many places are responding. While the “Christian Powers” are compelling China to pay $337,000,000 damages for a war these Powers provoked, Christians are giving money to China for its relief. This illustrates the moral difference between a “Christian” nation and Christianity.

The New York Christian Herald, which raised a fund for the famine-stricken in India, is doing a like work for the famine victims in China, and any reader of these lines who is moved to give something to this fund can do so by forwarding it to the Christian Herald, 92 Bible House, New York City, which will send it by telegraph to China. Twenty cents will save a life for a week. Five dollars will save six lives for a month.

It is to be hoped this Christian relief work will do something to distinguish Christianity in the Chinese view from the doings of invading armies, and thus prepare the way for a more favorable reception of missionary efforts in that great country.