LETTER FROM A YOUNG GREEK TUBERCULAR GIRL P lease forgive me for the liberty I am taking in writing this letter to you as I have nowhere else to turn. It comes from a suffering girl. Four years ago I became ill with tuberculosis —• the national scourge of Greece. I entered the sanitarium and in eleven months became well and returned to my home on the Island of Cephallonia. Unfortunate ly, however, there came the earth quakes and because I had to live out in the open under a tree, even in the cold winter months, again I contracted tuberculosis and have now been suffering afresh from that horrible disease for a year. As if my own suffering were not sufficient, my brother, 20 years old, has also received the merciless blow of this disease. The plight of our family simply cannot be described. When I think of my poor mother who is completely blind, I nearly lose my mind. She will be left all alone in this world unless some one has compassion enough to send my brother and me the antibiotic drugs that we need so desperately. You cannot imagine what hope there is in my heart as I send this letter to you. May God speak to your heart so that you may help my brother and me to get well and return to my despairing blind moth er. I do not even have one cent to buy the paper to write this letter, but it was given to me by another patient who told me of your won derful work and how so many tu bercular patients in Greece have be come well as a result of your as sistance. It has been a long time since I have felt my stomach full. You have no idea of the extent of our poverty. How you must treasure your health, dear friend. Once it is lost, it is so difficult to regain. There was the problem of find ing the postage money to mail this letter to you, as I didn’t have it. Some of the other patients felt sor ry for me and felt so sure that you were going to help me that they took an offering among themselves and gave it to me. So my heart and the heart of my brother in another part of the sanitarium are full of hope which we trust you w ill not disappoint. When you send the drugs to us and probably some money for food, please send a Bible for me and one for my brother. Aspasia Samouri Dear Reader, if this were your sister or daughter, what would you do? What would you like others to do? In the name of Christ, could you do exactly that and help this young girl and her brother through the American Mission to Greeks, P.O. Box 423, New York 36, N.Y.? (In Canada: 90 Duplex Ave., To ronto 7, Ont.) To send medicine to both of them costs $25, with $5 they can buy locally 40 lbs. of good nourishing food, and a Greek Bible costs only $1.00. With your help, the Mission is now endeavoring to care for 800 such cases in two of the largest sanitariums in Greece. Additional thousands of tubercular patients are begging us for God’s Word. Shall we say No?
our august issue
Two months ago we printed the first news about a special forthcoming issue of The King's Business. This special issue will be our August number. We've been planning this August issue for more than a year now, and again this month we're asking your continued prayers to the end that this venture will be mightily used to the glory of God. Sometime during the first part of June you will be receiving a letter giving the exact nature of this August issue. For now we can say this much. The news of this special issue will be of little interest to the nominal Christian. But for you who are walking close to our wonderful Saviour we believe it will be thrilling news. Thank you for caring enough to pray daily for the August King's Business.
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