A Fearful Famine | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 12, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 31.

A Fearful Famine.

Julian Hawthorne writes that if the rains fail in India this month, not less than twenty millions of people will die of famine. And this is not all, for many who survive the present famine and seem to get well, are utterly ruined and broken in constitution, and die in the course of two or three years. As Hawthorne says, “Children especially, after having reached a certain stage of hunger, never recover; they will not appear upon the books that record the mortality of the famine, but they will die of famine none the less, even tho when they die, they may be in the midst of plenty.” In another place, speaking of children who had seemingly been nursed back to health, he says: “There is no strength in them to resist disease—no recuperative power. The scar of the blow which Famine had dealt them was gone; but it had been fatal none the less.”