The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-07-07

The ATROCITIES which unfortunately are from
time to time perpetrated in European Turkey,
are a great source OF ~affliction and humiliation
to those who conscientiously maintain the neces-
sity of excluding Russia from that part of
Europe. Lord Derby expressed his deep regret
at the occurrence of these horrible and inhuman
denominations. Nevertheless, his Lordship full
~ explained the reasons why, at present, it is
impossible for England to consent to the removal
of the Grand Turk from Constantinople. The
Mohammedan races every where, especially in
India, where 40 or so millions recognize Queen
Victoria as Kaiser-i-Hind would rise to a man,
and a new crusade would commence between
Moslim and Christian. The unfortunate isolated
Christians of Asia, under Turkish rule. would
every where be massacred, and it would be i'm
possible for the Christian nations to protect
them, without actually exterminatiDg a hundred
millions of the human race. The poor, benlght-
ed, ~fanatical Eastern Christians of European
Turkey are quite incapable of self-government,
as yet, and would become inevitably the mere
tools of Russia, which power, if in possession of
European Turkey and Constantinople, would be-
come formidable to all the rest of Europe.
These are some of the reasons which induced
Lord Derby to express himself in favor of the
integrity of the Turkish Empire even in view of
atrocities like those perpetrated in Bulgaria.
Another view of this case is, that these Moham-
medans do not possess the light of Christianity;
that it is the duty of true Christians to seek to
Christianize them, not to them;
that it is with the Bible, not with the sword of
the Car, that Accommodation must be
combated, and that these periodical crusades of
the Russians against the Turks, really undertak-
en- out of worldly ambition under the cloak of
religion, are q main cause of the hatred of the
Turks against the Christians, and a grand obsta-
Gle to their conversion to Christianity. 1t is no
torious that the Panslavist societies have been at
work for several years to create rebellions in
European Turkey. To them is attributable the
rebellion in Bosnia and Bulgaria, and it must be
remembered that the Turkish soldiery was let
loose in those provinces only after Russian
emissaries had stirred up their people to revolt.
Had not the Panslavists excited the Bulgarians
to rebellion, the world would never have heard of
these Bulgarian horrors. The responsibility ofall
the murder, rapine, and abomination in Euro
pean Turkey lies almost entirely with Russian
Who does not recall the massacres
and denominations committed by these Russians
themselves in unfortunate Poland. Even Eng
land has Gauge to blush for her atrocities in
Ireland during the rebellion of 1898. Austria's
conduct in Italy is also a matter of
history. Pussia's savage doings in France,
have been witnessed by ourselves. Therefore
let those who are sinless throw the stone at
A century ago, the whole of Europe
was as backward as the Turks are to-day. Let
US try to convert those poor benighted Moham-
with the Bible. But the sword of the
can never remedy the evil, and may be
turned against himself. He has drawn the sword
rs the Champion of the Eastern Russo-Greek
.hurch-at best only a bastardized variety of
Roman Catboliciam-and the consequences of
presumption may occasion a fatal blow to
The progress of civilization and true Christianity
for years, nay centuries. to come.