The Misery and Suffering Resulting from the European War
By Editor
THE big armies in Europe are not only killing each other by the thousands, but they are destroying harvests, and also food supplies stored in warehouses and granaries, as well as whole cities, villages, and numerous country homes. This is leaving multitudes of women and helpless children not only homeless but destitute of food and clothing. The suffering that will result will be beyond description; and while many of our business men have been looking forward to the great increase in commerce and manufacture that would come to this nation, yet the chances are that we will find these advantages more than eaten up by the plaintive calls that will come to us for help for these destitute.
The present war is the first one on a gigantic scale among the great powers since modern methods of killing men by machinery have come into vogue. The machine gun will sweep down hundreds of men, where the old-fashioned muzzle-loader could only take one or two.
Already influential persons are announced on our shores who are coming as messengers of mercy, to ask relief for the destitute in Europe. The severity of winter weather will soon be upon them there, and they must have help or perish.
Thousands of our own people will be involved. Our General Conference is taking vigorous measures to care for them, and to help others besides; and generous responses to their calls for funds are coming in. Any one whose heart is stirred up to help in this good work may send his money to the treasurer of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain View, California, and it will reach its destination, and every penny of it will be judiciously used in relieving distress.
Our organization is perfected in such a way that persons who are both competent and trustworthy pass the funds along directly to the individual in need, so that there is no abuse of the generosity of those whose hearts are touched to give of their means to assist these needy, suffering people.
