Wagoner County Democrat (Wagoner, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 6, 1919 Page: 3 of 8
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Four million Armenians Syrians and other war-sufferers in Western Asia are destitute being practically without foodi
clothing oy shelter the vast majority helpless women and children
More than a million and a half have been deported More than a million have been brutally murdered and massacred
Four hundred thousand children are orphaned less than a thousand under five years of age a mute witness to horrible suf-
fering and devastation practically all having perished from exposure starvation and disease'' 1
For every hundred births there are from two to three hundred deaths Newly born children die almost immediately
their mothers having nothing to give them but tears '
Deaths from dysenter typhus tuberculosis and famine are increasing with appalling rapidity The homelss— a pitful
stream of women and children— wander through the streets of their wrecked villages If you stop a child toward evening and
ask him where he is going he will tell you “Ivam searching for a place to sleep”
All winter long they have slept in nooks and corners in alleys and by 'the roadsides with no blankets no covering
whatever their clothing the merest rags The women clasp their wan-faced children to their breasts while on their faces is
written the pitful story ol their utter despair
It is America’s God-given privilege to feed the hungry from her great bounty and from her unlimited store-house It
is her blessed duty to lift the head of fallen Armenia and Syria to put cup of cold water to their lips the morsel of bread in
their hands to shield from the cold of winter to clothe their naked bodies to prove herself the protector and liberator of
these greatly oppresed and suffering nations
' Now is our our opportunity to demonstrate to these lands made luminous by the footprints of Christ and the Apostles
what our Christianity of the West means Now is the time when these places of sacred history should receive a new sancti-
fication by the service of God’s children in twentieth century
400000
Orphaned
Children
Dying
And Jesus Said
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“For I was an hungered and ye gave Me meat:
I was thirsty and ye gave Me drink: I was a
stranger and ye tookMe in naked and ye cloth-
ed Me: I was sick and ye visited Me: I was in
prison and ye came unto Me N '
Then shall the righteous answer Him saying
Lord when saw we Thee an hungered and feed
Thee? or thirsty and gave Thee drink? When saw
we Thee a stranger and took Thee in or naked and
clothed Thee? Or when saw we Thee sick or in
prison and came unto Thee? The King shall ans-
wer and say unto them Verily I say unto you
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of' the least
of these my brethern ye haye done it unto Me”
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4000000
Destitute
Homeless
Starving
W agoner County ?s Quote is $2000
and Wagoner Never Fails
Campaign Opens Sunday March 10th and will Continue Until Quoto is Raised
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This Advertisement paid for by 1
O’Bannon Seed Co
First State Bank r
Todd Hardware Company
Searcy & Mather
Germicide Sanitarium
The Basket Store
City Bakery
A J Slade J G Hall
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J A Rorak
First National Bank Minnetonka Lumber Co
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Trolinger’s Pharmacy ' Owl Drug Store Wagoner 'Lumber Co
Citizens State Bank
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Foster, Horace S. Wagoner County Democrat (Wagoner, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 6, 1919, newspaper, March 6, 1919; Wagoner, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1923260/m1/3/: accessed June 6, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.