Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-09-08
TIE TURKS IN EUROPE.

Few, perhap, are aware Of the origin
OF The crescent upon the dug and coins Of
the TnEj.h empire. Il dato+ bacl, TO au
incident which occurred three bundled
nul ninety years bcore Cht,t, before
Alcxapdyr the Great was born, anl when
his father, King Phillip of Macrdon, was
besjcgiug the city now ca'cl Cpu,lAmi-
urp'c, hut then callel ByMutum. Alta
critical time during the Siege, fash OF
light ilumuyd The noltheln houz.n,
which rnvcayl to the be-icecl rhe ap
proach Of Phillips army, nnd enabled
lhcm to prepare nm ct'.c'unl rosi-iuuce.-
After therctrcat Of tn, Macedonian troops
the uhaaimuts Of By1rnlum built nu
altar to llrcntc, the Torch1carcr, aud
stamped crescent on their coi0s--n de-
vlee odaptci hY ,u,cc--iyc corquc'ors,
md naw the special emblem OF the Iuri-
hp,vor.
Nhctbcrlhj, cash flight wos caused
10y the rising moon, or the tieiuG sun, or
hy an ooeidroul coajuucuon Of mirrors
vc DO not know. Butnu instrument has
In;c)y been pptrntel called rhr san rcle
graph, or The Mnnce Holiograph, which
utilize. The Go-he- otli4hl from m,rror
In such % manner thal news can hn ton
y,yol thigtY or forty OF even sixty miles.
When threiiYof Byln'ium vu thus
.ovol by Al-h Eight, the lutl- wore
pn iusignlteant tribe Of bnlm'inus--ouc
Of many similar Tribes. living in some
unknown portion oI thc country now call
cd Slhwia. They wore indeed mcmhor-
of thc grea, family which We coucy tly
style Tumr-, indigenous in northern
Asia \ poet hn~ said, Westward the
-tnr of Empire takes its way.' This may
/ 10 true ut the present time; bat the usn
al course Of Gn Imperial race has been
sou'hvard, both in A,in and in Eurape.
Whnt the brave, Tough nud hnrlmrous
/ Gormaus were to the Romans during
/ their mtnr centuries, the handy and hnr-
hurnu. 1arars were to the mild and lux
furious Chinese; and the whole history of
/ the palt OF the world for many aeo- seems
to have been tho ,t.ugg'e between the
northern barbnrians mad the mptc evil
/ izpd southeIners. Among the most war
/ like aud euterpe-ug Tartar tribes were
/ lhe Turks, who carly emhincrd The Mo
hommodnn religion. which has -trnugn
power to convert an uulrvcloprd race in
/ to ~ tremendous eonqurring force.
Europe first began 10 hcnr of this form
/ idahle tribe as long nqn o- the year Si1.
when they miqnD i to Armenia, part ot
which they hold ti lhi+ d,y, and there
/ they Iemniucd, little known aud under
( vaiu,d for two or three centuries. iucrra-
ing ir .uh-unce aud IN numbers, until
/ in 1880 Il Sultan Of Per-m borrowed a
band OF three thou.ard rulk- 10 assist
Z him against the Sultan OF Babylon.
That was the hrginuiug Of Turkish
power. These hree lhou-nud werr com
mandcd by reni general NAMED Iungro
lipix, through whose mastngly conduct
the Turk. Ind a chance to show the met
re they were mado Of.
Everything in the universe, from an
ant to a new-mper, and from u nc~spa-
per to an empire, Nula according TO rs
fighting power, Tlis Twqrolipix not
only cnabIod the Sultan Of Pcr-ia 70 do
feat him OF Bahylon, but when the Per
sian Su,tan refused 10 letthe Turks go
home. and sent an army Of twenty thou
sand men to prevent them, 1uugrolipiX
attacked his superior force in the night
md pat it to utter rout. Nothing sac
ceed. like success Other tribes joined
/ the standard Of the victor, md the Tux
i.h general soon fmpd himself at The
head Of an army Of Afly thuu-nnd men.-
I Tie nude war upon Babylon, killed its
Sultan. ANNEXED domiuions. invaded Ara
o,a. made ~nr upon the Romans aud the
Scylhiars, aud ia short, established the
Tuik- as one Of The Gghlng powers Of the
wn'l1.
They appear to have bad - succession
Of phle ,alans. skillful fighting men,
vino believed thnt the glory Of man was
to conquer Il reghhoriug country, and
forcc IL To accept the coaqueror's iaw and
religion.
It wa in the Spring Of 1853 hat Mo-
BANNED, Sultan ofthe Turks, entered
upon the final eieee 0: Conslnntinople
which for ceaturies lhey had been ap-