The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-17

citizen with you Washingtonians, $780,
600 for Armenian relief was offered to
me II / would personally take that re-
lief to Armenia. My passage was to
be engaged on the City of Paris, but
telegram was sent to Constantinople.
asking ii the Turkish government
would grant me protection on such an
errand of mercy. A ca61egram sald
the Turkish government wished to
know to what points In Armenia de-
| sired to go with that relief. In our
reply, four cities were named, one Of
them the scene Of what had been the
chief massacre. A cablegram came
| from Constantinople saying that 1 had
better send the money to the Turkish
| governments mixed commission, and
they would distribute it, So q cobweb
| OF spiders proposed a relief committee
for unfortunate flies! Well, man who
would start up through the mountains
of Armenia with $4,000 and no govern
ment protection would be guilty Of
monumental foolhardiness. The Tur-
kish government has in every possible
way hindered Armenian relief. Now
where is that angel Of mercy, Clara
Barton, who appeared on the battle
fields of Fredericksburg, Antietam,
Falmouth, and Cedar Mountain, and
under the blaze Of French and German
guns at Metz and Paris and in Johns
town floods, and Charleston earth
quake, and Michigan fires, and Rus
sian famine? 1t was comparatively of
little Importance that the German en-
peror decorated her with the Iron
Cross, for God hath decorated her in
the sight OF all nations with a glory
that neither time nor eternity can dim.
Born in a Massachusetts village she
came in her girlhood to this city to
serve our government in the patent Of
flee, but afterward went forth from
the doors of that Patent Office,
with Divine patent signed and
sealed by God himself, to heal all the
wounds she could touch, and make the
horrors OF the flood, and fire, and
plague, and hospital fly her presence.
God bless Clara Barton! Just as l ex-
pected, she lifts the banner of the Red
Cross. Turkey and all nations are
pledged to respect and defend that Red
Cross, although that color Of cross does
not, in the option of many, stand for
Christianity. In my opinion it does
stand for Christianity, for was not the
cross under which most of us worship
red with the blood of the son of God, red
with the best blood that was ever shed,
red with the blood poured out for the
ransom of the world? Then lead on,
oh, Red Cross and let Clara Barton
carry il! The Turkish government is
bound to protect her, and the chariots
of God are twenty thousand, and their
charioteers are angels of deliverance.
and they would all ride down at once
to roll over and trample under the
hoofs Of their white horses any of her
assailants. May the five hundred thou
sand dollars she seeks be laid at her
feet! Then may the ships that carry
her across Atlantic and Mediterranean
seas be guided safely by him who trod
into sapphire pavement bestormed
Galilee, Upon soil incarnadined with
martyrdom let the Red Cross be plant
ed, until every demolished village shall
be rebuilded, and every pang of hunger
be fed, and every wound Of cruelty be
healed, and Armenia stand with as
much liberty to serve God in its own
way as in this, the best land of all tho
earth, we, the descendants of the Puri
tans and lIollanders, and Huguenots,
are free to worship the Christ who came
to set all nations free!
1t has been said that if We go over
there to interfere on another continent,
that will imply the right for other ma
tlons to interfere with affairs on this
continent, and so the Monroe doctrine
be jeopardized. No, no. President
Cleveland expressed the sentiment OF
every intelligent and patriotic Ameri-
can when he Numbered from the White
House a warning to all nations, that
there is not an acre or one inch more
OF ground on this continent for any
transatlantic government to occupy.
And by that doctrine we stand now and
shall forever stand. But there is doc
trine as much higher than the Monroe
doctrine as the heavens are higher than
humanitarianism and sympathy and
Christian helpfulness which one cold
December midnight, with loud and null
titudinous chant, awakened the shep-
herds. Wherever there is wound it is
cur duty, whether as individuals or as
nations, to balsaf it, Wherever there is |
a knife Of assassination lifted it is our
duty to ward Of the blade. Wherever |
men are prosecuted for their religion |
it. is our duty to break that arm of |
power, whether it be thrust forth from |
a Protestant church or a Catholic ca |
thedral or a Jewish synagogue or a |
mosque of Islam. We all recognize the |
right on small scale. If going down |
the road we find a rufIian maltreating |
81 child. or human brute insulting q |
woman, we take a hand in the contest |
il we are not towards, and though we |
be slight in personal presence, because
of our indignation we come TO weigh |
about tons, and the harder we punish |
the villain the louder our conscience |