Editorial December 26, 1903 Issue

Relief for the Macedonians

M. with contributions from Seth Low, H. C. Potter, Edward S. Andrews, C.C. Creegan, Henry O.Dwight, Charles H. Parkhurst, John P. Peters, Wm. Hayes Ward, David J. Burrell, J. Ross Stevenson, Morris K. Jesup, Robert S. MacArthur, John S. Kennedy, George W. Wickersham, Everett P. Wheeler

Legitimate appeals in behalf of destitute and suffering humanity have always proved ready passports to the hearts and purses of Christian Scientists, therefore it is to be expected that a generous and loving response will be made to the call for contributions in aid of the unfortunate people of Macedonia, issued by a committee of which Mayor Low of New York is the head.

The following circular issued by this committee presents in a few words a most deplorable situation which calls for immediate relief, and we feel sure that "Christian Europe and Christian America" will "come to the rescue." An appeal which sets forth the fact that innocent women and children are the victims of cold and starvation must find its way to the heart of every one, and to such appeals Christian Scientists are never indifferent. In this we have the example of our Leader's ready sympathy and practical help which have been manifested in this instance as in many others. "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work." M.

What Paul saw in the spirit, the man of Macedonia, who called to him for help for his country, we have before us in the flesh. The suffering and destitution, resulting from insurrection in Macedonia, are extreme. Twenty-five thousand Macedonians have managed to cross the border into Bulgaria. Several times that number remain in Macedonia, homeless, their herds and crops destroyed, perishing of cold and starvation. Every one is familiar to some extent with the conditions which have prevailed in that unhappy country for the last two years and more,—the active agitation of the Macedonian revolutionists, the rising in rebellion of a portion of the Macedonian people, the attempt of the Turkish authorities to suppress the revolution with the utmost severity by overwhelming force. With the rights and wrongs of the Macedonians we are not now concerned, but we cannot help being concerned with the relief of fellow human beings and fellow Christians,—of innocent women and children, who are perishing by the hundred and will perish by the thousand, most cruelly, unless Christian Europe and Christian America come to the rescue.

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