The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-17

| LuOuE VI the % dEtDcOlduS EcJSCIeus III
other words, the solemn oath of a
thousand Armenians would not be
I strong enough to overthrow the per-
jury of one Mohammeian- 4 profess
sor was condemned to death for trans
lating the English book of Common
Prayer into Turkish. Seventeen Ar
menians were sentenced to Is years i'm
prisonment for rescuing a Christian
bride from the bandits. This is the
/ itself in time of peace. These are the
/ delights of Turkish civilization. But
when the DAYS of massacre come, then
/ deeds are done which may not be IN
yelled in any refined assemblage, and
/ if one speaks of the horrors he must do
so in well poised and cautious voca bu-
| larry. Hundreds of villages destroyed,
Young men put in piles of brushwood,
which are then saturated with kero-
sene and set on fire. Mothers. in the
most solemn hour that ever comes in a
| ed, Eyes gouged out. and dead and
| dying hurled into the same pit. The
| slaughter of Lucknow and CawnpOre,
| India, in 1859 eclipsed in ghastliness.
| The worst scenes of the French revo-
luton in Paris made more tolerable in
contrast! In many regions of Armenia
the only undertakes to-day are the
jackals and hyenas-
Many of the chiefs of the massacres
were sent straight from Constantinople
to do their work. and, having returned,
were decorated by the sultan. To four
of the worst murderers the sultan sent
silk banners, in delicate appreciation
of their services Five hundred thou
| sand Armenians put to death or dying
of starvation! This moment, while l
| speak, all up and down Armenia sit
many people, freezing in the ashes of
their destroyed homes, bereft of most
of their households, and awaiting the
| club of assassination to put them out
of their misery. No wonder that the
physicians of that region declared
that among all the men and women
that were down with wounds and sick
ness and under their care, not one
wanted to get well. Remember that
nearly all the reports that have come
to us of the Turkish outrages have
been manipulated and modified and
softened by the Turks themselves The
story is not half told, or huudredth
part told, or a thousandth part told.
None but God and our suffering broth
ers and sisters in that far off land
know the whole story, and it will not
be known until in the coronations of
Heaven Christ shall lift to a special
throne of glory those heroes and hero
ines, saying: These are they who
came out of great tribulation and had
their robes washed and made white in
the blood of the Lamb Ny Lord
and my God! Thou didst on the
cross suffer for them, but Thou
surely, On Christ! will not forget
how much they have suffered
for Thee. l dare not deal in impreca-
ton, but l never so much enjoyed the
imprecatory songs of David as since
I have heard how these Tarks are treat
ing the Armenians- The fact is, Tur-
key has 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 American mission
buildings and American school houses
she has destroyed, and to support the
wives and children of the Americans
ruined by this wholesale butchery.
When the English lion and the Rus
sian bear put their paws on that Tur-
key the American eagle ought to put
in its bill
Who are these American and English
and Scotch missionaries who are being
bounded among the mountains of Ar
menia by the Mohammedans? The
noblest men and women this side of
Heaven. Some of them. men who took
the highest honOrs at Yale and Prince
ton and Harvard and Oxford and Edin-
burgh. Some of them women, gentlest
and most Christlike, who, to save peo-
pie they never saw, turned their backs
upon luxurious homes to spend their
days in self-expatriation, saying good
by to father and mother, and after
ward good-by to their own children, as
circumstances compel them to send
the little ones TO England, Scotland
or America l have seen these foreign
missionaries in their homes all around
the world, and stamp with indigna-
ton upon the literary blackguardism
of foreign correspondents 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 faiDtest
CLINT of any one of the Il pearls which
make up the Il gates
But what is the duty of the hour?
Sympathy, deep, wide, tremendous,
immediate, A religious paper of New
York has led the way with munifcent
contributions collected from its sub
scriberS But the Turkish government
is opposed TO any relief of the Arme-
MAN sufferers, as ! personally know.
Last August, before had any idea of
becoming a fellow-citiZen with you
Washingtonians, $4,000 for Armenian
relief was offered me If / would per-
sonally take that relief TO Armenia
Ny passage was 10 he engaged on the
City of Paris, but a telegram
was sent to ConstantinOple, ask