OUR INDIA FAMINE FUND by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 22, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 34.

OUR INDIA FAMINE FUND.

By Editor

OUR second instalment, forwarded to India by telegraph free of charge, through courtesy of the New York Committee of One Hundred, has been receipted for. In response we have the following letter:—

"EDITOR OF THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.—Dear Sir: The Committee of One Hundred on India Famine Relief has received $1,207.40 from the Seventh-day Adventists, and we are informed that $700 was contributed through the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Permit me, accordingly, in behalf of the committee, to make special and grateful acknowledgment of the gift. I sincerely wish that through the columns of your paper the committee's thanks might be returned to each one of the donors.

"The $700 will be cabled to India, without expense, on Friday, August 3, and will be promptly transferred to the International Tract Society, care W. A. Spicer, editor of Oriental Watchman, Calcutta.

"As the distribution of relief funds by the International Tract Society is, doubtless, as effective as the distribution by our own committee, the gift of $700 may fairly be thought of as providing the equivalent of a day's food for more than 20,000 hungry persons, including not a few destitute children, or buying 2,100 native blankets for the almost naked, or sufficing to enable nearly 300 impoverished peasant farmers to re-seed their fields. Such are the wonders of relief which may be secured by funds wisely expended in behalf of the famine sufferers.

"The famine distress itself can not radically lessen, until the gathering of India's harvests next October and November. The prospect is that those harvests will be far less abundant than usual. Accordingly, it is to be devoutly hoped that the supply of relief gifts will not be diminished for months to come.

"Again thanking you and the contributors of the $700, I remain yours very sincerely, "L. T. CHAMBERLAIN, "Ex. Chairman N. Y. Com. of One Hundred."

Our readers will remember that the first instalment from our SIGNS fund was $1,000. Brother W. H. Edwards, treasurer of our Foreign Mission Board, notifies us that to this last amount of $700 was added $507.40 from Michigan Sabbath-school Association. This amount added to our $700 makes the $1,207.40 mentioned in the foregoing letter.