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McCLINTOCK - - 43 Port Perry Tad pra HR Ontario "Canada Food Board Licénse No. 8-10196 I] ~~ Atnight the heat was intense, and the PORT PERRY AND SURROUNDING TOWNSHIPS.: JRSDAY, JULY 25, 1918 go toes SINGLE COPIES So. ~~ No. 80 ve eaten sufficient food for two ordinary meals; but even 'evidence of healthy appetite than its is of real HUNGER. most dist indi To starve means death after. s 'horror, It is not at all likely that you have been HUNGRY. Fe | But since the war began, four and three-quaiter millions have en- | dured the agony of waiting for food that did not come. They waited until death released them from their torture. ~~ Sho, shell, sword, bayonet, potsoned gas have slain with lightning stroke four and a quarter million human beings since the war began. 'Those lives were snuffed out with 'comparatively little pain. I say com- ~ PARATIVELY little pain, for their agony, though terrible, was brief. But famine prolongs the torture and its victims are innocent children, and the old and the helpless. 4,750,000 human being -have met death in [this terrible form. ' There is no need to varnish the story. The plain facts are enough. When you read them (if your heart is not seared with selfishness) you will want to help: you will want to do even more than you reasonably "should. To be frank about it, many of us kill our noble impulses-- . they are smothered in a luxury of "reasonable" doubts as to our puTy in the matter. If ever you are tempted to overdo (?) it in giving, for . goodness sake yield to the temptation. This extiavagance will not bar our way to the kingdom of heaven, HUNGRY CHILDREN M Ptr ALT TWO DAYS In the Belgian Refugee Camps the children are divided into three war bread, a bit of dried fish, and 'a bowl of soup which they drink on the spot, and that must do them for THREE DAYS. No child is given food on any but the appointed day, except--and please note the exception--except where a child is likely to die before its food day comes round, and then one of the stronger children must wait anothor day or two in order that the really starving child may have food. There is only 80 much food, and if one group eats another must do without. Ten dollars a year will keep a Belgian child from starvation. Not ten dollars a month, but ten dollars a year. - That will keep life in the little bodies--no full meals, and certainly no luxuries--just enongh to y keep body and soul together. These are the children of the Belgian soldiers who laid down their lives in the defence of their country and in defence of oar country. We . Owe to them much in maintaining our freedom and happiness. Someone must keep their children from starvation, and il looks like our job. What you have to give can be forwarded by 'the pastor of your local church, the Reeve of your town or township. Don't delay. Send you contribution NOW. Never mind if the war is going to: end soon. That will not stop the children from starving to death if food'is not sent * NOW, and sent continuously. The pity is, we can't SEE these things. If we were on 'the spot there would be no difficulty in getting us to give. We couldn't resist the appeal. Before the plan of adopting Belgian children into private families was discontinued, a group of them were taken to a public meeting, and the people in the audience were asked to provide homes for them. At the * close of the meeting a soldier's wife said: "My husband is fighting at the front. We have seven children of our own; but I have been figuring out my income, and I think I can help." y : > P The gentleman 1n charge of the children said, "That is very good of you which one of the children will you adopt?" The response was startling--"Oh, I was not thinking of one, I want TEY children! I shall not-be abe to provide much clothing, but I can give them something to éat." . $700.00 The facts which appear in the foregoing article were gleaned from an address delivered by the Rex. Mr McKenzie, of the Christian Men's - Federation, in the Methodist and Presbyterian churches. : It was just an ordinary congregation in the Methodist church--at most a bundred and fifty persons, many of them small children. Mr. "McKenzie's address was simple, remarkably free from anything border- ing on the hysterical. There was no room or need to discount the story. ~ At the close of the service the speaker stated that he wanted $500 from ~ was a sort of amazed gasp atthe amount he named, and no doubt there were a number of rapid calculations as to where he wonld get that amount of money from such a small congregation. But the amount was raised, and $94 added for good measure--$594.00 in all, r ian congregation was quite small, but they raised $149.00 for the fund. : Of course that is not all of the story, Maay members of these two _ congregations who were not present at these services, will want to con- tribute to the fund. That is provided for, and money for Belgian Relief * mayjbe handed to Mr Morley Campbell in the Methodist church, and 'to Mr. W{A Evans in the Presbyterian. church. = 1 | Rev. Mr. Black Writes to his Congregation Gravelbourg, Sask., July 12, 1918. - groups, and one group is fed each day. The little folk are given some - TWO CHURCHES GIVE "that congregation for the Belgian Relief Fond. When he said that there ; STANDARD BANK Your surplus earnings in our Savings Department earn inter- tsT'p 1872 €St at current rate. ~~ PORT PERRY BRANCH H. G. HUTCHESON, Musas , scorching winds for weeks; the subject to the fore as I endeavor to collect my thoughts is "the weather." The old timers cannot recall a season to compare with this for drought, and heat, and scorching winds. The early part of the season was ideal, an unusually large acreage was culti- vated, and the seed made a good start; but six weeks of the most unfay- orable weather have blighted the hopes of any harvest in this district, The most sanguine report places the present crop condition at 70% total- ly destroyed, and the remaining 30 per cent badly in need of rain. And the prospect of rain is still remote. The prairie is baked and cracked. Old straw stacks, generally disposed of by burning, are being sought after for feed for horses and cattle. There is not a vestige of pasture. The creeks and sloughs, ordinarily the feeding places of wild fowl, are dry; and hundreds of young ducks, unable to fly, are dying of thirst. The effect upon the various interests cofistitutes an important study The merchant, looking forward to the settlement of outstanding accounts, wears a worried expression, and curtails the giving. of credit. Large stocks of harvesting machinery ready to set up,-remain untouched; and the implement agent realizes that for him--*"the harvest is past, and the summer is ended." The banks have no money to lend. My personal impression is that the Western banks are of little service to the farmer. They lavish money uponfhim when times are good, and inciteto extrava- gant expenditure. Then shut right down on him wheu he needs their help the most, The worldling, who 1n the midst of prosperity waves the palm over his own head, in times like these, "loses his faith in God." For such cant I have no sympathy. Their question is, "why doesn't God bless us with an unlimited prosperity always?" But on what ground they can ex- pect it is more than I can decipher. The fatalist breathes his "what is to be will be." and hopes for the best: while the despairing heed the injunction of Mrs Job, curse God defiantly, and are ready to die. > But God has ever His "several thousand in Israel," and in the midst of these he finds faith. Like the author of the 37th Psalm, they say -- "I have been young, and now am old, yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." I sat the other day with an old Calvinist who, as he looked at the blighted grain, said, "it is a good thing: it will stop the war." I didn't tell him I hoped the war wouldn't stop till the Yankee soldiers have had an opportunity to fulfil their promise, "to can Kaiser Bill." The world will not be safe for democracy till the Kaiser and his clique are crushed. My prayer is not for a "draw" but for a decided victory for the Allied cause, Therefore, I view with apprehension the withering grain fields. It may be that nationally we are not yet prepared for the blessing which we seek. To-day is "the glorious I2th." But Gravelbourg heeds it not. There is no flourish of "Orange and Blue," nor revel of fife and drum. Twelve days ago our country celebrated Dominion Day, and Gravelbourg was equally indifferent. The only flags displayed on any occasion are those of the Church of Rome. June 17 to 20 were set apart for a Red Cross canvas, the aim being "one million dollars" from this Province. But the Roman Catholic fathers of this town made absolutely no -&ffort on behalf of Red Cross funds. I haven't seen a lady knitting since I came out here. The influence of the Church of Rome upon its followers for spiritu- ality is at zero point. One young fellow, in the course of a conversation with me in a cafe one Friday, summed up his creed in the statement, "We eat fish on Friday, go to mass on Sunday, and live like hell the rest of the time" Our own church work in this district has very little future before it as the Protestants are being gradually squeezed out. However, to those that are here the church must minister. In the appointments where I conduct service I have people who come 14 miles to church. Next week I have an appointment at one home with a number of familiés for a wholesale baptism of children, The ministries of an entire year in other places, are here erowded into a period of four months. ' I am glad that we enlisted the services of Rey. Mr. Bell and extend- ed our sphere of labor. If you could visit with me in those prairie shacks and hear the expressions of appreciation when I'explain our ar- rangement to help the Home Mission Committee, you would feel the words of the Apostle verified in our own experience--*It is more blessed to give than to receive." In my next letter I shall write an account of my visits from shack to shack. I shall not be sorry when my four months have expired, and we return to Port Peny with its shade and calm. We love our home in your midst and look forward to a long, happy pastorate. At times I feel the call of the wilds and the fascination of the unsettled regions--but we have "done our bit." I love to sit in the twilight with the old cow- boys and talk of the days when the West was young, regretting the pass- ing of those romantic types--the cowboys and the Indians. That the Prairie Provinces have passed beyond the experimental stage is evident, but as yet they are only on the fringe of greater things. We look forward into the years when the 170 million acres of wheat land West of the Great Lakes shall be under cultivation, and the manifold, rich resources of the country are fully developed; when our farmers shall be the wheat cers sf the British Empire, and the wealth-of many lands shall roll into our treasuries, And if righteousness and truth be found hand in band with commercial and industrial development; and there be some in dom of God through our efforts in laying the foundation of the church of Jesus Christ in these - "Then shall we count our loving toil well spent; ~~ Then shall we breathe again: content! content!" <8