Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-03-13

which has made var upon Turkey is far moro
Intense 10 degree than that Which he attacked.
for the religion which it rroisnes c,ntains Ito
most divine truth which the world over re-
ceivod. Moham,aed divided the neither world
into sewn heils, aud 10 tho lowest he placed
the hypocrl!cs OF al religious. have now
icarefully examined into many religions. but, ss
mono Of them demanded so high standard from
its followers as Chlistisbi!y, there has net been
any development OF hypocrisy out of them at
all corresponding TO that Whl,h is peculiar to
anti Christianity. For that reason | am CON-
strained to think that its contributions to tho
region assigned to typGcrites by tho Prophet
will bo out Of eli nroporiioa to tho hgpocritcs
of other reEe:c7s:,"
Tho parsissc1t yials,ion tor eighteen o,a-
lurilS of the great sl;Iuis.io law propounded
and erjoiucd by !hc great founder of the
| Christian reii2ion must Inevitably produce
a cMrcsnoaGiaH catastrophe and the day is
| not far dis!sn 0hcn no itr9 civilization will
| fad that il lis great scientific discoveries and
iiavcniions, devised for lbe purpose Of admiuis
teIiug to its own * ravogant necessities, ii has
| forged the weapons by which il will itself be
destroyed. No b>tttr c7idcpc, Of the truth Of
| this can bo t0ucd ihaa IN the tact that anti
| Christeud0m alone is meDfc?d with the danger
| CT great class Icvo!utlo0: already 10 every 80
| c llcd Chrisiiln country we hear tho mutterlngs
Of the clmirg storm, when labor and capital
will Gud themselves a7rayed against each other
! when rich end poor will meet 10 deadly an
tagopisD, ana the spoilers and tho spoiled solve,
| By mcans Of tic most recently iovoncd artillery.
| tho economic DrobIcms OF modern progress
| Itis surely a remarkable lact that tho struggle
bstwcoD rich ard poor is specially reserved fer
those whose re;igioD ineulcstcs upon them, as
tho highest law, The love Ct their neighbor. and
most strongly dcGcCDc,s the lovs OF money.
No couorY which does nos bear tho nauo OF
| Chris iln is thus threatened. Esca in Turkey
in spite OF its bad gc7eraincnt aud tho many
Christians who ike iliE, socialism. Communism,
nihiIism, irternatioDaiis2l, ard all kindred
forms Of GLASS rcvo uo1 arc uIknown, Tor tho
| siuipo reason that Turkey has 81 tar, OF least.
succ ,sSlully resisted tho infllsno> OF anti
Christian oviiZ ition.'
I'm tho dcg7cc III which ;ho s!n!o depends.
for its political, Commercial and siclai we'll belng
and property, not upon q moral but meehan.
icsl basis, is lis foundation pcriiou4. Wheo the
life blood ct nalioC i5 is wollth, and the cx.
istcnc, Of that wanl,! depends upon the regu
larity With which riiiro.ds and t.lcarlphs pr.
| form thoir fuDo ms. il Is in the power Ola few
| skilled artiz,ns. b2 means OF q combined opera
| too, to srangic it. Oolg tho other day the en-.
ginecrs AID fireman oI lev railroads 10 the US.
struck for week; no'riy q thousand men wira
| killed and wounded before tho trsius could bn
| sot running again millions ct dollars worth OF
properly was destroyed. Iho oontaglon sprosd
| to the miucs aud facsori;s, aud had tho move
mcnt been ncr1 sbil!iul'y organized, tie wtol,
| country would hero hcon in revolution, aod tits
impossible to tel! what tho results might have
been. Combinations among tho working GLASSES
are now rendered practicable hy rail aud wire,
which formerly woro impossible and tho fsoili-
tics which exist for Gccret conspiracy have
turnod Europe lnto O sun6erng volcano, an
eruption of which is rapidly approaching.
| This it is that tho laws of retributon ru1
their c)ursc, and that The injuries that anti
1 Christendom hes inGicicd upon the more primi
tive and simple racls Of tn, Wo;ld, which,
under the prctext Of ciGi!izng thom-it hss
explored to its own profit will bo amply avenged,
| Belieyo me, my friend, that it is uoder no vln'
dictivo mpu!s, or spnit of religious intoleraBc>
! that writo this: on tho c)nuarg, though l
consider Mus'ulmars generally to ho far moro
religious than Christians, inasmuch as thoy
practice moro oorsoicn'iou3y the teaching OF
their Prophet. feel that teaching from an
I ehica pon. OF vio1 to b infinitely Inferior to
that OF Christ. D.! have wctton, therefore, with.
oat preiuti.c, ia this aEtemat philos,phicay
to anayz, tho naiuTo aud c!us ,s OF tho collision
which has at last cuIc9io:tcI between tho East
aud tue West, between so-called Christendom
and I,aam. Aud should osly be too thauktu
it it could DO proved to NO that J. had done the
| form OF roiaioa you profess, or the patton to
which you bn:6Dg, on l!iua1iGo. l am far lron
wishing ia i;siu1l:e th:t among Chris.lans
even as Gi:;siAuy il At prascGt profess ID and
prso!ioo1. tieca ere 40: u good men az among
na,ionS caoi A3a,;:9a and barbaI;ou5. sm
even prepared 80 r.;,.nit there are better
Tor aoG,O 6;TuGgiaso practice the hg nor virtues
OF Chrl3tiani.y, 40. GGaIccossiuiy, conaidering
toe manner in ahiC.! th3sn Gro coayontionally
itTavcs!iGd w;li'a 0ia@ts. who reject tho popular
theology altogether, hGvc riaoa hghar than Or
d'rcry modern Christian practice by force Of re-.
! ac.:oI cgains: tho hypocrisy g1d ehsms By which
they arn surr0uHdrG-bUt the;e are in faeble
minority and Gn:hc (" atl:c. Tbs popular stand
erd. Such mor existed among the Jews at the
tinlo OF Christ. bU, they did not prevent him
or 'ha chu7ch which c2Unte1Gnced them. Al
tho semo i:Iaa. ! nus. remind you tbs. l ehrGnk
from tho tas:i whch yer iu2pts ed up1a ma. and
only consented 81 lest 10 undertake. il on your
repeated assurances tEe. by sGCla at all events,
OF FoUt counLryDo0, tho spirit by which have
hsen snlmaIed in writing taas frankly will not
be 5niscop ceived.
"He'ie7e mo. ny ii2G7 friard, vours very sin.
icar1lY, a. TURKISH SFFENDI"
| ---------
s0S MISUNDERSTANDING tho very graat I'd.
vance in the prco Of esthor and cost of Boots