The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-22

StIaIS IL from SOLSIoIIiiiOJiS w Sto
their work, and having returned were
decorated by the sultan.
To four Of the worst mUrderers the
sultan sent silk banners in delicate ap-
probation Of their services. Five
hundred thousand Armenisns put 10
death Or dying OF starvation. This
moment, while I speak, all up and
down Armenia 81. many people, treez,
ing ia the ashes OF their destroyed
homes. bereft Of most Of their house
holds and awaiting the club OF aSSas-
sinauon 10 put them out ot their ms
erv. No wonder that the physicians
OF that region declared that among aIi
the men and women that were ooWn
with wounds aud sickness and under
1heir care not one wanted to get well.
Remember that nearly all the reports
that have come up 10 the TURKISH
oi,traces have been manipulated ana
modified and softened by the Turks
themselves. The story is not half told
or a nundredtb part told, ora thous'
andth part told.
None bu: God and our suffering
brothers and sisters in that farotf land
know the whole story, and it will not
be known until, IL the coronatlons OF
| heaven, Christ shall lift TO special
throne Of glory these heroes and hero
ines, saving. 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 my
God, thou didst on the cross suffer for
them, bat thou surely, OChrist, wilt
not forget how much they have suf-
fered for thee. l dare not deal IN I'M
precation but neverso much enjoyed
| the inprecatocv songs Of David as
since l have heard how those Turks
are treating the Armenians, The tact
is. Turkey has got to be divided up
among other nations. OF course the
European nations must take the chlet
part, but Turkey ought to be compelled
TO pay America for the American ms
sion buildings and American school
houses size has destroyed and to sup
port 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
cugh. 10 put IN It's bill.
Who are these American and En-
clish and Scotch missionaries who are
Being bounded amcng the mountains
of Armenia by the Mohammedans!
The noblest men and women this side
Of heaven, some Of them men who
took the higest honors at Yale and
Princeton and Harvard and Oxford
and Edinburgh; some OF those women
gentlest and most Christlike, who, to
save people they never saw, turned
their backs on luxurious homes to
spend their days in self expatriation,
saving goodby to father and mother
and afterward gooby to their own
children, as circumstances compe!
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 liter
ary biackguardism of foreign cores
pondents who have deprecated these
heroes and heroines who are willing
to live and die for Christs sake. They
will have the highest thrones in heav-
en-, while their defarmers viii 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.
This defamation Of missionaries is
augmented by the dissolute English,
American and Scotch merchants who
60 to foreign cities, leaving their fami-
lies behind them. Those dissolute
merchants in foreign cities lead life
of such gross immorals that the pure
households of the missionaries are
perpetual reb0ke. Buzzards never did
believe in doves, and If there is any
thing that nightshade hates it is the
water lily. What the $50 American
missionaries have suffered in the Otto
man empire since 1920 leave the arch
angel to announce on the day Of Judg-
ment. You will see Unreasonable that
put so much emphasis on American
ism in the Ottomac empire when | tell
you that America. Notwithstanding all
the disadvantages named, has now
over q, 600 students in day schools IN
that empire and 35, 600 children in her
Sabbath schools, and that America has
expended in tn Turkish empire for
its betterment over 80, 10000 Has
not America right to be heard. Aye,
It will be heard. I am glad that great
indignation meetings are being held
all over this country. That poor,
weak cowardly sultan, whom I saw
years ago ride to his mosque for wor-
ship, guarded by 1000 armed men,
many of them mounted on prancing
chargers, viii hear of these sympa-
thetic meeting for the Armenians, if
not through American reporters, then
through some Of his $50 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 a ruler of their own to clean
out and take possession of the palaces
Of Constantinople. Tonight this au-
gust assemblage in tie capital of the
| United States, in the name of the God
of nations, indicits the Turkish gov
ernment for the wholesale assassina
ton in Armenia and invokes the inter
ference Of Almighty God and the pro-
test OF eastern and western hemis-
| pliers.
But what is the duty Of the hours
sympathy, deep, wide, tremendous,
immediate, a religious paper, The
Christian Herald Of New York, has
led the way with munifcent contribu
tons collected from subscribers. But
the Turkish government is opposed to
any relief of the Armenian sufferers,
as I personally know. Last August,
before had any idea Of becoming
fellow citizen with you Washington
ians, $4,000 for Armenian relief was
offered me if I would personally take
! that relief to Armenia. My passage
was to be engaged on the City of Paris
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