The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-09
PLEA FOR ARMENIA
The Rev. DR.. ScuddeT Con-
demns this CountrY's
Attitude Towards
the Turk.
SELFISH CHRISTIAN INDIFFERENCE
Services and Sermons in Various
Churches Throughout the
City Yesterday.
SELFISH CHRISTIAN INDIFFERENCE

The Rev. John Scudder preached a
rattling prelude on the Armenian Ques-
ton in the Tabernacle last night. his
subject WAS: ga Pitable par; Turkish
Barbarity and Christian .Inefficfency-
Among other things he said
"a Pitiabae Pair; Turkish Bansbarity
and Christian Ineficiency I! Another week
of murder and massacre in Armenia.
with fresh details of butchery and de-
vastaltion. The scene changes, but tine
same bloody work goes ON. At present
we hear little of fiendish assaults upon
women, and children writing on uhe
ends of Turkisn bayonets. These
coarser eruelties have been superseded
by a subtle policy of discriminating IN
fuential males and leaving the women
and children in poverty and destltutlon.
There is method in the madness OF the
willy Turks. and in spite of oleagfdlous
promises of reform from the treacher-
GUS Sultan. the work of
spreads and ringleaders in brutality are
openly rewarded. 1t IS no exaggeration
to say that the enormity of these crimes
is wiuhout parallel in the annals OF the
nineteenth century.
AS monumental as the avage of the
Turks. however, is the selfish indiffer-
which from motives of jealousy, coward
ice or hearthessness, have permltleu
these atrocities to exist and muItlpiy.
large percentage of che Armenian race
must be annihilated before those much
talked of reforms will be established.
For these horrible masSacres CHRISTIAN
nations are in a large measure respon-
sible. Their standing adoof and fatauTe
to champion the cause Of the s opPress sSs
country with blood. They could nave
paralyzed the arm of this murderols
empire. but for sordid reasons they re-
f,ccd IN da If and as a consequence
1000 ave been ruthlessly. slain and q
quarter of a million are homeless and
Of etarvation. No wonder the Turks
despise Christians and call them dogs.
when they will not stand by their fellow
And how must Christianity suffer N
the eyes of h heathen, who are told
and good viii towards men," Where can
you find any '1oye your neighbor as
gourselfs in she dastardly an anastdy1tyf s Of
in the manger," but very. little golden
has been seriously damaged by the
events of the past few months. To yin-
dictate our religion before the world. 1
where to make haste to force their
governments to take, summary action,
and put an end to this infamous trag-
to relieve the sufferers. but we should
do far better il we convinced our Chris
tan nations to combine forces and de,
branch. Running around with eordials
and beef tea for the victims OF turkish
fanaticism is we'll enough as far as 1T
goes, but a more vigorous type Of Chris
fiansty would inform the Turk that he
must quit killing his neighbors or spend
his Remaining days in the p~enitentiary
of hard labor.
If Christian people would rise In their
might and talk plainly to their respectiye
end to this whole diabolical business.
The attitude of the United States in
s tbes moste It s e gSad ia Os sh Show W q IN NETS It's
Judgment this Is an Eastern question,
and ought not to concern the Western
hemisphere-al of which is h~eathenish
is not confined Ito America. It encircles
the earth and includes these abused peo>
pie in Asia Minor. President Cleveland
declares that A \ :, are n,,+ vel ts;s pro- onu,
of protection is not broad enough to suit
the followers of Jesus Christ. We want
the blessings of civilization to become
slider d The horrors in Turkey 81 saflcient
magnitude to cali for swift. and deter.
mined action on the. part Of the United
States. What the bleeding heart. of hu-
manity cries for at this time Is Ar
menian protection. More than this It
demands with imperious accent the alb
solute destruction OF the Turkish en-
pire, the stencil Of ,, whose - carnage fage has
slave; let her NOW protect the Armenian
from needless cruelty and death. Let
her inspire and cooperate with tine ma
a WI that has ever been the enemy
of humanity and drawback to c~iviliza-
ton. Too long have. Christian nations
Rlayffdf ns tes s Egy,se a aga s acs t Rrls1 BART Let Ct
the Good Samaritan