Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-08

and I hope ere long to see victory shin
 ing on it's banner"
 Did it not concern the people of the United States as truly as it does the
 young men of Armenia, it were indeed
 crime to invite the men and women of
 America to consider the gruesome deeds of blood and hideous foulneSS perpe-
 trated in Armenia. But 1t does concern them most seriously.
 The cause of righteousness is the car diometer of civilization. It tests the
 power of the heart action of the age and generation to which it is presented. The Armenian cause is now, pure and simple,
 the cause of righteousness upon earth as against hellish iniquity of freedom against h:gh-handed and malignant tyr
 amy The veil of falsehood and cunning
 disguise being torn apart and humanity confronted with the awful sight as or bell
 itself yawning at her feet with lurld glare and smoke laden with the StenC1 or deadly pestilence, it Is no more an Armen- ian question alone, but belongs to this age and generation. It will test, as with weights in a balance, the moral aVoirdu- poise of a civilization and Christianity that stands at the mature age or nine
 teen centuries, and will place It on rec ord for all time to come; 1t will test II not only by the impassioned eloquence of genuine sympathy it irvokes but by the sudden and speedy" action 1t arouses today on the part of true men
 and women everywhere to swell the tide that will bear against the monstrous in- iquity and crush 1t out of existence. Here is a civilized Christian people threatened by imminent extermlnatlon over and above the chronic state of\ un- speaka ble horror described In pr Dll- Ions narrative and summed up by MT Gladstone in four awful words-plun- der. murder, rape and torture" Other words of Mir Gladstone concerning these facts addressed to the great Chester
 meeting, are fitting here: T shall not at tempt to lead you into the dreadful held, but I make this appeal to you:. tl hope that every one of you will, for him. self and herself, endeaVor in such de
 gree as your positions may allow Of you to endeavor, to acquire some acquaint- ance with them. When you be-
 gin to real them, you will see the truth of what 1 have just said, namely, that we are not dealing at all with common and ordinary question of abuses of govern
 ment or of defects of them. We are deal
 ing with something that goes far deeper, far wider, and that imposes upon us and
 upon you far heavier obligations To fulfill these obligations to humanity to prevent the destruction of more thou sands of men, women and children by famine and torture; to deliver the womanhood of Armenia from the horror of a bondage worse than death and to induce the powers of Europe to estah- fish by effective means the security of life honor property and religion in Armena-this is the sacred task today
 before the civilized world; and to hasten it's accomplishment the noble people Of the United States can render most effi- cient help by organizing everywhere whether with five persons or 500--organ- izing for the relief of Armenia, and CO., | operating with the valiant men and women who are now working for that end in England.
 And it will be the fervent prayer of every true American that Canon Mac | Calls hope may be realized ard victory shine on the banner of the Armenian cause; for the redemption of Armenia from destruction will not only be the salvation of an ancient Christian church and nation and bring their eternal bless ings upon the great nations of the west but it will also stand on the highway of the nations as another glorious pea con light of freedom for all generations to come. " HERANT MEsROB KIRETCHJIAN.