STARVING INDIA by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 6, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 23.

STARVING INDIA.

By Editor

IN our Outlook department last week was an article on "Hapless India." No human words can describe, nor pencil portray, nor imagination conceive, the accumulated misery of sixty-one million of starving people. Aged men and women, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, from maturity to infancy, dying for want of a mere pittance which a few pennies of united Christendom would supply.

The British Government is doubtless doing all it can, as declared by the missionaries, short of actual confiscation of the property of the grain merchants, largely natives, we understand. The curse of caste is another thing which hinders the native distribution of food.

But apart from all these side questions, over which there is more or less division of sentiment and uncertainty of fact, it is sufficient to the generous heart to know that millions upon millions are starving for the want of a little corn or rice, or money to buy it.

Many have given to India's need through such papers as the Congregationalist, the Christian Herald, and other papers. Many have given through other sources. The United States Government sends a ship to carry a donated cargo of corn. For all this we praise God.

But are there not many among our readers who wish to give through the SIGNS OF THE TIMES to India's famine-stricken ones, to give all the way from ten dollars to five cents? Rather, how many wish to lend to God of the means intrusted to them as His stewards? "He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will He pay him again." Prov. 19:17. This is God's bond to every generous soul.

All funds contributed through the SIGNS OF THE TIMES we shall be glad to place in reliable hands, with the editor of the Oriental Watchman, at Calcutta, who will, we know, disburse them wisely to the needy. We will receipt through the SIGNS all that we receive. Who will give for India? To start the fund the employees of the office of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES donate $63.30.