Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-01-17

This is the way the Turkish govern
ment amuses itself in time Of peace.
These are the delights Of Turkish ciyili-
zation. 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,
be must do so in well poised and eau
tious vocabulary. Hundreds Of villages
destroyed Young men put in piles Of
brushwoOd, which are then saturated
with kerosene and set on fire! Mothers,
in the most solemn hour that ever comes
in a woman's life, hurled out and bay
oneted Eyes gouged 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 reyolu
tion 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-
ciaticn Of their services Five hundred
thousand Armenians put to death or dy-
ing 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.
"How Long, o Lordw
No wonder that the physicians Of
that region declared that among all the
men and women that were down with
wounds and sickness and under their
care not one wanted to get well. Re-
member 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 hundredth
part told, or a thousandth part told.
None but God and our suffering broth
ers and sisters in that farof land know
the whole story, and it will not be
known until in the coronations Of heav-
en- Christ shall lift 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. 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 thee /
dare not deal in imprecation, but l
never so much enjoyed the imprecatory
songs Of David as since l have heard
how those Turks are treating the Ar
menians. Tbe fact is, Turkey 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 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. 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 Ar
menia by the Mohammedans? The no
blest men and women this side Of heav-
en-. 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-
pie they never saw, turned their backs
on luxurious homes to spend their days
in self expatriation, saying goodby to-
father aud mother and afterward good
by to their own children as circu u
stances 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 indignation upon the
literary blackguardism Of foreign corre-
spondents who have deprecated these
heroes and heroines who are willing to-
i've 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 II
pearls which make up the - 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
behind them. Those dissolute merchants
in foreign cities lead life Of such gross
immorals that the pure households Of
the missionaries are a perpetual rebuke.
Buzzards never did believe in doves, and
if there is anything that nightshade
hates it is the water lily. What the 900
American missionaries have suffered in
the Ottoman empire since 1920 l leave
the archangel to announce on the day OF
Judgment. You will see it reasonable
that l put so much emphasis on Ameri-
canism in the Ottoman empire when l
tell You that America, Notwithstanding
all the disadvantages named, has now
over $1,000 students in day schools in
that empire and 80, 900 children in her
Sabbath schools, and that America has
expended in the Turkish empire for its
betterment over $1,000, 900. Has not
America right to be heard2 Aye, 1t
will be heard am glad that great in
dignation meetings are being held all
over this country. That poor, weak
cowardly sultan, whom I saw few
years ago ride to his mosque for worship.
guarded by 1000 armed men, many OF
chem mounted on prancing chargers
will hear Of these sympathetic meetings
for the Armenians, il not through Amer
ican reporters. then through some OF
his $50 wives. What to do with hims
There ought to be some st. Helena to
which he could be exiled while the ma
tions of Europe appoint ruler OF their
own 70 clean ont and take possession OF
tbe palaces of Constantinople. Tonight
this august assemblage in the capital OF
the United States. in the name OF the
God of nations, indicts the Turkish gov
ernment for the wholesale assassination