The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-13

as New York was fifty years ago The
crops OF HinCustan affect the markets OF
London and Chicago, and a skirmish in
South Africa stirs up all Europe The
unity OF mankind is most commonplace
fact to-day.
the front. Time was when every tribe
counted every other its natural foe. 1t is
now seen to be wiser to call it its natural
friend. Society is Joint stock concern.
Every human being is an integral. though
lnhnitesimal factor in the life and destiny
OF the world.
Modern history only furnishes expanded
areas for the enactment of the parable of
the good samaritan, This is my neigh
Dor" This finds its answer as a thing of
spirit and not of geography.
mo man liveth to himself" Every good
man says to himself, 81 owe every other
man my best. In so far as | fall short of
that best, L rob society and the state and
the world. / owe the right my defense, and
the wrong-my defiance. A Roman En-
peror said he felt uncomfortable as long as
there was a good man III Rome. Every
good man should feel uncomfortable as
long as there is bad Emperor anywhere.
Christianity may be more, but it is human
lty, too. Civilization is not Christianity.
but If they are not inseparably allied. then
so much the worse for the one or the other
Va OOoh. hnb lCllElOll ID vi the UoVlI ana
not OF God that does not make men more
manly, more loyal to the right, more ten
der to the appeal of the suffering and
more valiant in the championship of rhe
good and the true. Nor does distance nor
creed stop the Christians ear to che voice
of that appeal. Does Thebew massacre
the helpless people OF Burmah? Does a
juggernaut in the name of religion crush
the superstitious Hindoos of India? Does
a Car Cypress or Danish the Jews in Rus
STA?
Then Thebaw and Gear are criminals
before the world and the bloody wheeled
chariot Is the means of torture and not of
grace. Does the Sultan outrage the Ar
menians of Asia Minor? Then the world
that permits his outrages to continue be-
comes silent but guilty partner in his
crime. Have $4,000 been slain and are
$50, 900 people starving. hiding, hunted
like scared wild beasts in that distressed
district to-day2 And where is Christian
Europe2 Are the ethical obligations of
Christian civilization now TO be ignored?
Is 1t not true that men are their brothers
keepers? | do not need to disguise from
you, in the house of God to-day, that the
Armenians are Christians. They belong
to one of the most ancient and honored
communions of Oriental Christendom. It
Is their misfortune to dwell on soil over
which the scepter of the Ottoman emnire
the upper and neither milestone. They
are not perfect. Nobody is. But the mn
speakable Turk is no longer endurable
The sickly despot of Constantinople has
outlived his right to rule. Onlv a pro
found conviction that God rules, and that
he rules right, reconciles the world to TIE
existence of Turkey to-day, and if the lie
and reign of the Sultan are to continue
long rs they are, civilization NAV well in
terpret the fact as the intimatlon of the
Almighty that the time has come to sweep
the imperial cesspool of intrigue and de-
ceit off the map of the modern world.
The sword is the symbol OF Islam. The
faith of Mohammed has fattened on the
blood of the infidel. There is the hatred
that is born of such a religion as that, that
must be counted as factor in the sicken-
ing situation in Turkey today
But apart from that, no question of
diplomacy, or finance, or statecraft can
blind the eyes of the world 10 the fact that
right is right, and right only has a right
to be.
But still the cruel work goes on. Mr.
Gladstone in letter of regret to the mass
meeting in London fortnight ago said:
1.-THE six great powers, which among them
spend more than 100000 600 sterling
yearly upon what is termed their defenses,
lie PROSTATE at the feet of an impotent
Sultan, who, with their cognizance, an
pears to prosecute massacres at his will
day by day"
is there no respite? Must the Armenians
die crushed under the heel of the Turk?
Shall organized pillage and carnage 90 on
and the whole world sit off in horror while
few crowned heads take their leisure in