OUR FAMINE FUND HEARD FROM.
By Editor
Under date of July 24, Brother W. A. Spicer, editor of the Oriental Watchman, writes from Calcutta:— “Please thank your contributors to the fund for famine relief, and say to them that we will take pleasure in passing your fund on to the distressed districts. Thus far such amounts have been placed with mission relief stations of various denominations, wherever we knew of greatest need. We hope the rains may yet put a stop to famine and bring a year of fruitfulness. Even so, there is still the famine ‘of hearing the words of the Lord.’ There is, after all, the most pitiful famine in India. Missionaries are fearing that the general interest in relief of famine this year will react and lead to a dropping off of contributions for mission work in the future. That ought not to be.”