Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-01

Tenth and Eleventh avenues, South High lands. Telephone 9SS)
 This great nineteenth century of ours, which throbs and pulsates with its divine messages to humanity, is called the age of enlightenment because of the won derful realizat tions in science, inventions, literature and every other direction, which tends towards the elevation and advancement of our race. It Is also called an age of religious freedom, pe- riod when mankind can worship their Creator in whatever form and service that is deemed necessary and desirable by individuals. But can it be such period of religious independence when the press of the country is filled with the terrible records of recent happenings In far away Armenia, and yet the govern ments of the world sit supnely by and receive these heartrending particulars of barbarities, scarcely conceivable by ordinary humanity, and still make no ef- fort to prevent their recurrence? The nearness of the peoples of the earth be- cause of cable and telegraph wires, be- cause of rapid and constant travel, makes every question of moment trans piring in every section of the globe, a matter of immediate concern to the diff ferent nations. No civilized country can claim ignorance of the questions which agitate other nations, whether close or remote. We are bound together by electric wires, which not only flash the daily histories of nations from one point of the globe to another, but the people Of the earth are connected by invisible wires of mutual sympathy, which touch human hearts, whether they beat in the breastsz of Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, or that beneath the furs of Russian. Dane or Swede. And wherever these un- seen threads of human sympathy reach, whatever longitude or latitude they tra- verse, the indignation of the world has been aroused by the atrocities recently committed upon the ArmenianS by the heather MoslemS. These things have been transpiring for many months, and barbarities almost beyond conception by Armenians have been the subject for public discussion for almost a twelve month, yet no positive action is taken by any nation in behalf of these helpless Christians, who are being daily sacri- feed to Turkish hatred. It is hopeful to chronicle that the citizens of America are beginning to speak in no uncertain tones regarding this outrage upon the cviliza- ton of this nineteenth century. Dr. P. T. Hale, who has recently returned from several months visit to Palestine, Asia Minor, Greece, Italy, Syria and Egypt, will preach tonight upon Ar menian Atrocities" from a point of per- sonal observation. America is the great. the tremendous conservator of the re- ligious and political freedom of the world, and the voice of individual Ameri- cans, raised in behalf of the persecuted and down-trodden of every nation, rem ders possible the power that America wields in the affairs of the world The nations of Europe are still halting in their demands upon Turkey. each con cerned about Its own policies. and the "balance of power;" it may be that American citizens, by the strength of combined and universal protest may effect what the rulers of Europe hesitate fo accomplish. pr. A. w. Whittle, who was member of pr. Hale's party-he really was director of the journey-has recently been interviewed on this Ar menian question by an exchange, and gives the following views of the situation from his personal observation and ex- perience:
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