News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-01-16

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dence in court is of 10 worth, and if 20
Armenians saw a wrong committed and
one MOhammedan was present the tes-
timony of the one Mohammedan would
be taken and the testimony of the 80
Armenians rejected-in other words, the
solemn oath of a thousand ArmGnians
would not be strong enough to overthrow
the perjury of one Mohammedan. A pro-
fessor was condemned to death for trans
lating the English Book of Common
Prayer" into Turkish. Seventeen Arme-
mans were sentenced to 10 years i'm
prisonment for rescuing Christian
bride from the bandits.
This is the way the Turkish govern
ment amuses itself in time Of peace.
These are the delights of Turkish civil
cation. But when the days Of massacre
come, then deeds are done which may
not be unveiled in any refined assem-
blage, and if one speaks of the horrors,
he must do so in well poised and eau
tious vocabulary. Hundreds Of villages
destroyed! Young men put i'll piles of
brushwOOd, which are then saturated
! with kerosene and set on fire! Mothers,
in the most solemn hour that ever comes
in woman's life, hurled out and bay
oneted Eyes gopged out and dead and
dying hurled into the same pit The
slaughter of Lucknow and CaWnpur,
India, in 1857, eclipsed in ghastliness!
The worst scenes Of the French revOlu
ton in Paris made more tolerable in con-
trast In many regions of Armenia the
only undertakers today are the jackals
and hyenas. Many Of the chiefs of the
massacres were sent straight from Con-
stantinople to do their work. and having
returned were decorated by the sultan.
To four of the worst murderers the sui
tan sent silk banners, in delicate appre-
citation of their services. Five hundred
thousand Armenians put to death Or dy
ing of starvation This moment, while
speak, all up and down Armenia sit
many people, freezing in the ashes Of
their destroyed homes, Lereft Of most
of their households and awaiting the
club Of assassination to put them out OF
their misery.
"EE0w Long, o LoTd!
No wonder that the physicians of
that region declared that among all the
men and women that We're down with
wounds and sickness and under their
care not ono wanted to get well. Re
member that nearly all the reports that
have come t. us of the Turkish outrages
have been manipulated and modified and
softened by the Turks themselves The
story is not half told, OF hundredth
part told, OF a thousandjh part told
None but God and our suffering broth
ers ana sisters i'll that faroI lana know
the whole story, and it will net be
known until il the c0ronations Of hoay-
Ell Christ shall lit to a special throne
Of glory these heroes and heroines, say
ing, "TheSe are they who came out of
great tribUlation and had their robes
washed and made white in the blood of
the lamb. y My Lord and my God, thou
didst on the cross suffer for them, but
thou, surely, o Christ, wilt not forget
how much they have suffered for theel
l dare not deal in imprecation, but I
never so much enjoyed the inprecatory
songs Of David as since 1 have heard
how those Turks are treating the Ar
meniaus. The fact is, Turkey mas got to
be divided up among other nations. OF
course the European nations must take
the chief part, but Turkey ought to be
compelled to pay America for the Amer
lean mission buildings and American
schoolhouses she has destroyed and to
support the wives and children Of the
Americans ruined by this wholesale
butchery. Vixen the English lion and
the Russian bear put their paws Oh that
Turkey, the American eagle ought to put
in its bill.
WhOare these American and English
and Scotch missionaries who are being
bounded among the mountains of Ar
menia by the Mohammedans? The no.
blest men and women this side of heav-
Ell. Some Of them men who took the
highest honors at Yale and Princeton
and Harvard and Oxford and Edin.
burgh. Some Of them women, gentlest
and most Christlike, Who to save peo-
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on luxurious homes to spend their days
in self expatriation, saying goCdby to
father and mother and afterward good
by to their own children as circum-
stances compel them to send tho little
ones to England Scotland or America.
l have seen these foreign missionaries
III their homes all around the world,
and | stamp with indignation upon the
literary blacLguardism Of foreign CORE
spondents who have deprecated these
heroes and heroines who are willing to
live and die for Christ's sake. They
will have the highest thrones in heaven,
while their defamers will not get near
enough to the shining gates to see the
faintest CLINT of any one of the IL
pearls which make up the II gates.
The Cowardly Sultan.
This defamation of missionaries is
augmented by the dissolute English,
American and Scotch merchants who go
to foreign cities, leaving their families