The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-13
DIABoLISM OF CENTURIES.
PERSECUTION OF ARMENIAN CHRIS
TIANs BY TURKS II ALL AGES.

DR.. TaImage's Weekly SermOn-A
Fierce Denuncia tion of the Follow
ers of MnhoInct for Their Trcach-
erOus and bloody Treatment OF
ProtestantS-He InVoIscs the Thun-
der of the Warships and the In
fervensfon Of All Christian Nations
10 Wipe Turkey From the Nap of
the WorId-The SuItnn's Throne
Based on Brigandage and AssRssi-
nation.
Washington. d. c., Jan. u. 1Ss5.-It was
appropriate that In the presence of the
chief men Of this nation and other ma
tons. DR.. Talmage should tell the story
OF Armenian massacre. What viii be the
extent for good Of such a discourse
none can tell The text was, Kings,
1897: They escaped into the land Of Ar
menia."
In Bible geography this IS the first time
that Armenia appears. called then by the
same as now. Armenia is chiefly a Ia
ble-land. seven thousand Zee; above the
level Of the sea. and on one Of its peaks
Noahs ark landed, with its human fam
lily and fauna that were 10 ill the earth.
That region was the birthplace of the
when Adam and Eve lived there. their
only roof the crystal skies. ana their car
pet the emerald of rich grass. Its inhab-
itants. the ethnologists tell US. are SUI
perior type OF the Caucasian race. Their
religion is founded on the Bible Their
Savior is our Christ Their crime is that
they will not become followers Of Ma
homet, that Jupiter of sensuality. To
4,-frr no Of 10
the ambition of all Mohammedans. To
accomplish this, murder is no crime, and
wholesale massacre is a matter of en-
thusiastic appreciation and governmental
reward. The prayer sanctioned by high
est Mohammedan authority, and recited
every day throughout Turkey and Egypt,
while styling all those not Mohammedan
as infidels, is as follows: 20 LORD OF
all creatures q Allah. Destroy the IN
fidels and Polytneists, thine enemies the
enemies of the religion! o Allan! Make
their children orphans ana delle
their bodies; cause their feet TO SIP; give
them and their families, their households
and their women, and their children. and
their relatives by marriage, their broth-
ers and their friends, their possessions
and the race, their wealth ana thelr
lands as booty to the Moslems, o Lord
OF all creatures The life Of an Armen-
ian in the presence of those who make
that prayer is of no more value than the
Turkey sits on a throne lmpersonauns
that brigandage and assassination. Al
this time all civilized nations are in hor-
Tor at the attempts of that Mohammedah
government to destroy all the Christians
of Armenia. / hear somebody talking as
though some new thing were happening,
and that the Turkish government had
taken a new role of tragedy on the stage
of nations. No, no! She is at the same
old business. Overlooking her diabolism
of other centuries, we come down TO. our
century to find that in 1922 the Turkish
government slew $1,000 anti-MOslems, and
In 1850 she slew 100000. and in 1860 she slew
II, 000 and in 1876 she slew 10000. Any
thing short of the slaughter of thousands
OF human beings does not put enough
red wine into her cup of abomination 10
make il worth quanng. Nor is this the
only time she has promised reform. In
the presence of the warships at the mouth
of the Dardaneles, she has promised the
civilized nations of the earth that she
would stop her butcheries. and the inter-
national and hemisphere farce has been
enacted of believing what she says when
all the past ought to persuade us that
she is only pausing in her atrocities to
put nations off the track and then resume
the work of death. In 1920 Turkey,
I'm treaty with Russia, promised to al
leviate the condition of Christians, but
the promise was broken. In 1888 the then
sultan promised protection of life and
property without reference TO religion, and
Inc promise was broken. In 1874, at the
demand Of an English minister plenipo-
Tertiary, the sultan declared, after the
public execution of an Armenian at Con-
stantinople, that no such death penalty
should again be inflicted, and the promise
was broken. In 1850. at the demand Of
foreign Eations. the Turkish government
promised protection to Protes tants, but
10 this day the Protestants at STEAMBOAT
arc not allowed to build a church. although
they havedhe funds ready, and the Greek
Protestants, who have a church, are not
permitted to worship in il. In 1856, after
the Crimean war, Turkey promised that
no one should be hindered in the exercise
of the religion he professed, and that
promise has been broken. In 1875 at the
memorable treaty of Berlin, Turkey prom
ised religious liberty TO all her subjects in
every part of the Ottoman empire and
the promise was broken. Not once in all
the centuries has the Turkish government
kept her promise OF mercy. SO far from
any Improvement the condition of the Ar
menianS has become worse and worse
year by year, and all the promises the
Turkish government now makes are only
gaining of time by which she is making
preparation for the complete eXtermina-
ton of Christianity from her borders.
Why, after all the national and CONT
mental and hemisphere lying on the part
Of the Turkish government do not the
warships of Europe ride up as close as is
possible to the palaces of Constantinople
and blow that accursed government to
atoms? In the name of the Eternal God,
let the nuisance of the ages be wiped off
the face of the earth Down to the per-
dition from which II smoked up, sink
Mohammedanism! Between these out
breaks of massacre the Armenians suf-
ever reported. They are taxed heavily for
the mere privilege of living, and the tax
is called the Humiliation tax" They
are compelled to give three days enter
tainment to any Mohammedan tramp
who may be passing that way. They
must pay blackmail to the assessor, lest
he report the value of their property too
highly. Their evidence in court is of no
worth, and if nifty Armenians saw
wrong committed and one Mohammedan
was present, the testimony of the one
Mohammedan would be taken and the
testimony of the fifty Armenians reject
ed; in other words, the solemn oath Of a
thousand Armenians would not be strong
enough to overthrow the perjury of one
A1ohammedan. A professor was corr
denned to death for translating the Eng
lish Book of Common Prayer into Turk
ish. Seventeen Armenians were sentence
ed to fifteen years Imprisonment for res
cuing Christian bride from the bandits
This is the way the Turk
ish government amuses itself in
time of peace. These are the de-
lights of Turkish civilization. But when
the days of massacre come then deeds are
done which may not be unveiled in any
refined assemblage, and if one speaks of
the horrors, he must do so in well-poised
and cautious vocabulary. Hundreds of
villages destroyed! Young men put in
piles of brushwood, which are then satu-