The Latter-day Saints march in a "sea of dingy, dirty, starving, diseased and desperate"

Well, it is the Latter-day Saints now toe-deep in "a sea of dingy, dirty, starving, diseased and desperate [Ethiopian] men, women and children". We just wonder what kind of Gospel they plan to "feed" the people. Ed.

Fast for Ethiopia accelerated work
Source: LDS Church News

The feeding camp in Makalle, Ethiopia, housed 120,000 people in tents. But it was the 30,000 people outside the camp -- those who had arrived at the gate after traveling hundreds of miles to find relief from starvation, only to learn there was a waiting list to get in -- who captured the hearts of two visiting officials from Salt Lake City. Elder M. Russell Ballard, then of the Presidency of the Seventy and now a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and Elder Glenn L. Pace, then managing director of the Church's Welfare Department and now of the First Quorum of the Seventy, were in Ethiopia to determine how best to use $6 million raised by Latter-day Saints in a special fast, Jan. 27, 1985. For Elder Ballard and Elder Pace, the scene was like walking "out into a sea of dingy, dirty, starving, diseased and desperate men, women and children." The victims stared with sunken eyes. Flies covered their faces. Some approached the men from Salt Lake City. "Doctor, doctor!" they called out. "It was a life-changing experience," recalled Elder Ballard. "The poverty, the sickness, the desperate circumstances that occurred there -- it was just overwhelming."