India, Feb. 27 -- "Not more than others I deserve,

Yet God hath given me more;

And I have food, while others starve,

Or beg from door to door."

The "Christian Herald", an American weekly newspaper reporting on topics related to Evangelical Christianity, emphasising humanitarian causes at home and abroad, thus appealed to American Christians to donate generously to the famine relief efforts of Mrs Carrie Bruere in Poona. "The sour scourge of famine which has passed over India has opened doors of a special opportunity to missionaries in casting upon Christian charity the care of thousands of starving waifs", it wrote.

Mrs Carrie and Rev William Wynn Bruere were missionaries with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Poona. Rev William was ...