The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-02-07
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RELIGIOUS DIFFIcULTIEs IN sERyIA. d
Perhaps great par; of its misfortunes is ex-
planned by religious differences. The servian
OF the West are inclined TO the Roman religion
the Servians OF the East to the Greek church
These difsrenc- s explain many interior rival
ries Of Servia and much enmity OF her tribes
with the neighbor1ng tribes. The popular songs
Of f seryi Ia tel that one day war broke out be-
the Turks, an tnfidel people. One OF the Servfan
kings belonging, like the majority Of his ma
ton; 70 the Greek orthodoxy, went 10 encounter
IF yon conquer what win you do with our
81 Will impose Cstholicity by force"
And going TO the sultan he asked Of him the
same Hs and received this reply; en- o
churches close to the synagogues, 90 that all
who believe in Mohammed and wish Ii may go
Christ.
The Greek religion suited the segvlan spirit
religion The predominance of physics in
the Hellenic faith attracts people naturally in
clined to mystical ideas. Thus 1t is that Onen
upon abrupt mountains, seemed to the eyes of
those warlike tribes in the mirrorings OF faith,
ries of thought, where the priests
guarded the sacred fire OF truth, where
the penitents interceded with God for
their people. where the prophets wept for the
dead, and called upon the living in the hour
markeu Dy frOVQence Tor COMBAT and death.
For 4OO years the Servia which expired at Kas-
sons. None OF them think that her hero, Lag
arus, has disappeared from the slumbering
fight. No, he is hidden in those distances be-
hind the veil of impenetrable mysteries, as
God behind the celestial stars of the ARMAMENT.
The apostles who baptized Servia have de.
scended from their aItars 10 providenually
cover ana shield MIN; Inc armies which he dl.
in that communion they received, at the same
time with the divine host, the immortal hope
OF one day seeing their chieftain rise from his
invisible temple to
THE VISIBLE THRONE OF sERvIA.
Mysterious swallows, that flt between Jerusa-
lem and Belgrade almost at a single flight, after
having brushed with their wings the ashes of
Calvary and dipped their pinions In the waters Of
the Jordan. chirp by the woods and at.the mon
astery doors legends of this nature which only
the faithful Servian hears. Unhappy people,
Their martyrdom is one of the most heart-rend-
mountains are the highest OF Calvaries, and
perhaps the most bloody among the crucidxion
during the last three long centuries seems like
continuing death. Their oppressors cast
The cities to the bosom of the woods, and COM
PEELED them in a savage state to wander In the
mountain Businesses and to clothe themselves
in the barks OF trees. Those who remained in
the city carried their heads bowed upon their
breasts and their eyes fixed upon the ground.
IL they raised their heads 1t would be said that
they elevated 1t to look for the light of heaven
and for liberty. II they raised their glance it
their tyrants, and this would bring down death.
Some were dragged from their families, so that
they might not speak of their country-eyen at
the fireside with their children, or in the nup-
Jual couch with their wives. Terror reigned 10
such q degree that the old men and the women
went in search of the strongest in the trbe
and said: "Slay US before leaving us to the will
of the oppressor." How often has the noun
taineer, ON departing for the woods, caught his
bethrothed by the hair, gazed upon her with
the ecstatic eyes of love, driven his hunting
knife to her heart, launching forth an agoniz-
ing wall and receiving in return dying smile
from the martyr glorified and TRANSPORTED. The
principal hero of Servian Independence killed
In that eternal captivity, in those ages of mis-
fortune, this race acquired a MIXTURE of en-
thusiasm and Discrimination of pride and self
hardened il and gave it the cunning and pa
thence of the weak, as well as the energy and the
might OF the strong.
IRON ARMS, IRON HEARTS AND DIPLOMACY
| know of no history more worthy of attention
and study than the history Of Ssrvian indie
pendcnce. Abandoned by all, the Servians wi
erect theLseives into strong people by the
indomitable force OF their character and the un-
speskable virtue OF their national patriotism
without ever cea>ing to measure the obstacles
and the difficulties which oppose them, they
| will employ patience, astutene S, and even
deceit when the force of arms can not be used
They are nerved like steel, and these are always
at the service of their Machiavellian intellects
4 AND the prominent quality among them is q
sublime pride. In the middle ages they awaited
| themse YES of Rome against, Constantine
pie and OF Constsptinople against Rome
| In the nineteenth century they avail til EN-
| selves of Russia against Turkey and of Turkey
/ aginst Russia According to their convenience
| they are either slaves or heroes. They will
| PROSTATE themselves like weak nuns in their
| solitary converts 10 1mportune the skies by
prayers and tears, or they will sally out To the
held armed and arrogant, like the warriors OF
| ancient Greece, TO make every pass Their
| mopyl@. No cause will move their iron hearts
| will merit compassion from those who have
| alone been abandoned in all of Their oppres-
'nS which 1os Greek 'ne
| excited, consecrated by the recollections OF
the first of ancient poets and sung TO the Tyre o.
| the first OF modern poets, they remained indif
| ferent, Notwithstanding that the enemy o.
Greece is their own enemy, calculating that 9
great Hellenic empire might reduce them TO q
| dependency more lasting than their dependency
on the Turks and drag them from destiny sc
brilliant as the leadership and the direction oil
| the Christian peoples in the East. And when
| the Mohammeaans of Bosnia, all slaves like the
Servians, arose against the Turks. Servia aided
| their being ancient renegades, traitors 10 theil
country in the terrible day of KassoIo.
PRACTICAL PATRIOTS.
Thus there is no people who have better
known how TO profit by everything favorable tC
themselves, and 10 flee from everything advers.
to them. They OWNED the policy of the Rus
sian empire in the East when Peter the Grea
established 1t with the same admirable instinc
| with which certain birds presage and announc,
| the tempestfn the mountains and the hurricane
| on the sea. None better than Servia has com
pretended the weaknesses and the strength o
Turkey. None has profited better more Servis
/ by the mild policy of Joseph III. OF Austria
Il None has combated the sultan as this singular
nation has done in the person of its hero, George
Kara, when the condition or Europe at the be
ginning OF the century made vic
Lory easy. None would have made, az
Servia did OF Milosch, an apostle and a re
deemer, out of an instrument of oppression
The history of its independence makes 1t al
epitome OF the heroic times by the sublime valo
with which each one Of its pages glistens, and
study in politics by the ability and prudence
which are naked with heroism Only by such
means could she secure her existence when. II
the year 1872, abandoned by Russia, delivered
over TO Turkey, she could, while dragging along
and raising herself to the measure OF fortune
combating or negotiating according to neces
sity, penitent or warlike, martyr or courtier
possessing a fabulous val0r on certain occasions
and on others a prudence more incredible than
her valor, with the audacity of the savage and
the foresight of the sage, constitute herself ma