The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-01-16
FNSFn0R. TALMAGFS SUNDAY SERMON.
THE CRY OF ARMENIA.
DR.. Talmage Insists 1t Shall Be Needed, and
BY America, Too.

In Bible geography this Is the first time
that Armenia appears. called then by the
same name as now Armenia is chiefly n
tableland, 1000 feet above the level Of the
sea, and on one OF its peaks Noahs ark
landed, with its human family and fauna
that were to I'LL the earth. That region was
the birthplace OF the rivers which fertlized
the garden OF Eden when Adam aud Eve
,]iyed there, their only roof the crystal skies
II and their carpet the emerald OF rich grass.
Its Inhabitants, the ethnologists tell US. are
superior type OF the Caucasian race. Their
religion Is founded on the Bible. Their
Saviour is our Christ. Their crime Is that
they willnot become followers Of Mohammed.
that Jupiter OF sensuality. To drive them
from the face OF the earth Is the ambition OF
all Mohammedans. To accomplish this,
murder Is no crime. and wholesale mas
sacre Is matter OF enthusiastic appro-
baton and Governmental reward.
The prayer sanctioned by highest Moham-
medan authority and recited every day
throughout Turkey and Egypt, while styling
al those not Mohammedans asfnildels. is as
follows: 80 Lord OF all creatures o Allah!
Destroy the inndeis and polythcists. thine
enemies, the enemies Of the religion. o
Allah. make their children orphans and denle
their bodies cause their feet 20 slip give
them and their families. their households
and their women, their children and their
relatives by marriage, their brothers and
their friends their possessions and the race.
their wealth and their lands a. booty 10 the
Moslems, o Lord Of all creaturesl" The life
of an Armenian in the presence OF those who
make that prayer is Of no more value than
the life Of a summer insect.
Tho Sultan OF Turkey sits or throne i'm.
persOnHting that briganddge and assassinu-
tion. AZ this time all civilized Nations are
in horror at the attempts 81 that Mohommc-
dan Government to destroy all the Christians
Of Armenia. l hear somebody talking ~
though some new thing were happening, and
that tho Turkish Government had taken q
new role OF tragedy on She stage of Nations.
No. no! She is Mt the same old business.
Overlooking her diaholism OF other centur-
ies. we come down TO our century 10 find
that in 1929 the Turkish Government slew
$4,000 anti-Moslems, and in 1850 she slew
10000, and In 1860 she slew 1000 and I'm
1876 she slew 10000. Anything short Of the
slaughter Of thousands Of human beings does
not put enough red wine into her cup of
abominatlon 90 make II worth qualiing. Nor
~ this the only time she has promised re-
, firm. In the presence Of the wurships at
\ the mouth OF the Dardanelles she has prom
n isrd the civilized Nations OF the earth that
she would stop her butcheries and tho inter-
< s.tcrnational and hemisphere farce has Ijeen
L enacted OF believing what she says, Va IN all
the past ought to persuade us thai she Is
only pausing in her atrocities TO put Ma
iions of the track aud then resume the work
OF death
In 1920 Turkey in treaty with Russia prom
iSei 10 ulleNlHte tne conllliOn OF IntlSlan-,
but the promise was broken. In 1899 the
: then, Sultan promised protection OF life and
rnan.ty without reference to religion, and
tIIIi'esr mise was broken. In 1874, at the de-
mSn'i .. IN English minister plenipotentiary,
the Sultan declared after the public eSecu-
tion OF an Armenian at COnstantinOple
that no such death penalty should again De
inflicted. and the ~~omise was broken. In
/ 1850. at the demanu Of foreign Nations the
Turkish Government promised protection 90
x Proiestants, but to this day the PrOtestants
mt STEAMBOAT are not allowed to build a church
although they have the funds ready. and
the Greek Protestants, who have n church
are not permitted TO worship l II. Ia
1856 after the Crimean War Tur prom
ised tina: no one should be hindersd T. IN,
exercise OF the religion he professed. and
that promise has been broken. In 1878, al
the memorable treaty of Berlin. Turkey
promised religious liberty 90 all her subjects
: In every part Of the Ottoman Empire, and
= the promise was broken. Not once in all the
Z centuries has the Turkish Govern ment kept
her promise OF mercy. So iar from any i'm
- provement. the condition of tho Armenian,
has become worse and worse year by year
.and all the promises the Turkish Govern
ment now makes are Onlya gaining OF tim,
hy which she Is making preparation for tn,
complete cNt1rmina:ion Of Christianity from
her borders.
No wonder that .he phy scians Of that re-
glon declared that among all the men an I
women that were down with wounds and
sickness aud under theircar, not one wante 1
to 20! we'll. Remember that nearly all tho
rtpO~ts that have cOmetO Us OF the Turkish
\ outrtses have been manipulated ant mOdi-
. ned aud sJitened by the Turks themselyr
} 9he story is not half told or a hundredth
part told, or q thousandth part told. None
nut God and our suffering brothers aud sis
ters in that !ar-on land know the wholestorv,
and il will not be known until in thscoroua-
lions Of heaven Christ shall lit 10 special
throne OF glory these heroes and heroines,
saying, "Thcse are they who came out OF
great trbulation and had their robes washed
and made white in the blood OF the
Lamb" 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 surere for Theel I
dare not deal in imprecation, but / never so
mdch enjoyed the imprecatory songs Of
David as since have heard how those Turks
are treating the Armenians. The fact is,
Turkey has got To oe divided up among 9TH
er erNations. OF course the European Nations
must take the chief part, but Turkey ought
10 be compelled TO pay America for the
American Mission buildings and American
schoolhouses she has destroyed and to sup
port the wives and children of the Ameri-
cans ruined by this wholesale butchery.
When the English lion and the Russian bear
put their paws on that Turkey, 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 Armenia by the
Mohammedans? The nobest men aud wo-
men this side OF heaven. Some OF them men
who took the highest honors at Yale and
Princeton and Harvard and Oxford and
Edinburgh. Some of them womsn, gentle
ant most Chnstlike, who, 10 save people
they never saw, turned their backs on luXu-
rious homes to spend their days in self-eNpa-
triaton, saying goodbv to father and mother
and aiterward goodby 20 their own children
rs circumstances compelled them TO send tho
little ones to England, Scotland or America
have seen these foreign missionaries
in their homes all around the world
ana 1 stamp with indignation
upon the literary blackguardism OF for
eign correspondents vino have deprecated
these heroes and herones who are wiling 10
live and die for Christ's sake. Tney will
have the highest thrones in heaven. while
their delamers will not get near enough 70
the shining gates tha fniu pl inf Of