The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-24


themselves, The story is not half
told, or a hundredth part told, or a
thousandth part told. None but God
and our suffering brothers and sisters
in that far-of land know the whole
story, and it will not he known until,
in the coroEatiens of Heaven, Christ
shall lift to special throne of glory
these heroes and heroines, saying:
''These are they who came out of
great tribulation and had their
robes washed, and made white
in the blood of the Lambl" My
Lord and my Godi Thou didst
on the cross suffer for them. but Thou,
surely, oh, Christi wilt not forget how
much they have suffered for Theel l
dare not deal in imprecation, but I
never so much enjoyed the impreca-
tory songs of David as since have
heard how those Turks are treating
the Armenians. The fact is, Turkey
has got to be divided up among other
nations. OF course, the European ma
tions 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 En-
glish and Scotch missionaries who are
being bounded among the mountains
of Armenia by the Mohammedans?
The noblest men and women 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 wom-
en-, gentlest and most Christ like, who,
to save people they never saw, turned
their backs on luxurious homes to
spend their days in self-expatria-
ton, saying good-by to father and
mother, and afterward good-by to their
own children, as circumstances compel
them to send the little ones to En-
gland, Scotland or America. have
seen these foreign missionaries in their
homes all around the world, and
stamp with indignation upon the liter
ary blackguardism of foreign corre-
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 gate to
see the faintest CLINT of any one of
the twelve pearls which make up the
twelve gates. This defamation of
missionaries is augmented by the dis
solute 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 mis-
sionaries arc perpetual rebuke. Buz-
yards never did believe in doves, and
if there is anything that nightshade
hates it is the water lily. What the
$50 American missionaries have suf-
fered in the Ottoman empire since 1920
I leave the archangel to announce
on the day of Judgment. You will
see it reasonable that l put SO much
emphasis on Americanism in the OF
toman empire when I tell you that
America, Notwithstanding all the
disadvantages named, has now over
twenty-seven thousand students in day
schools in that empire, and $1,000 chill
dren in her Sabbath schools, and that
America has expended in the Turkish
empire for it's bettcrment over ten mil
lion dollars. Has not America right |
to be heard? Aye! it will be heard! !
am glad that great Indignation meet |
ings are being held all over this coun-
try. That poor, weak, cowardly sui |
tan, whom / saw few years ago ride |
to mosque for worship, guarded by |
1000 armed men, many of them |
mounted on prancing chargers, will |
hear of these sympathetic meetings |
for the Armenians, if not through |
American reporters, then through some |
of his 800 wives. What to do with |
him? There ought to be some st. |
Helena to which he could be exiled, |
while the nations of Europe appoint
ruler of their own to clean out and
take possession Of the palaces of Con-
stantinople. Tonight this august as
semblage in the capital of the United
States, in the name of the God of Ma
tions, indicts the Turkish government
for the wholesale assassination of Ar
and invoxes the interference
of Almighty God and the protest of
eastern and western hemispheres.
But what is the duty of the hour?
Sympathy, deep, wide, tremendous,
Immediate! A religious paper, 'The
Christian Herald" of New York, has
led the way with muniicent contribu
tions collected from its subscribers.
But the Turkish government is OPP
posed to any relief of the Armenian
as personally know. Last
August, before / had any idea of be-
coming a fellow-citizen with Wash
ngton, $4,000 for Armenian re-
lief was offered me if l would
take that relief to
Armenia. My passage was to be en-
gagged on the City of Paris, but tele-
gram was sent to Constantinople, ask
ing if the Turkish government would
grant me protection on such an errand
If mercy. A cablegram said the Turk
sh government wished to know to
what points in Armenia l desired to
20 with that relief. In our reply four
titles were named, one of them the
scene of what had been the
,hief massacre. A cablegrarn came
rom Constantinople saying that
[ had better send the money to the
Turkish governments mi xed commits
'ion, and they would distribute it. So
! cobweb of spiders proposed a relief
committee for unfortunate flies! Well,
! man who would start up through the
of Armenia with $50, ,OO0and
10 government protection would be
yuilty of monumental foolhardiness.
The Turkish government has in every
xvav hiudarad Armenian re-