The Penn's Grove record., 1896-01-17
REl. DR.. TaLuaGE.
The Eminent Divine's Sunda,
Sermon.


snbJectt "Armeuian Horrors"
TEXT: t'They escaped into the land Of Ar.
menia.'-u Kings xix, 81.
In Bible geography this Is the first time
that Armenia appears, called then by the
same name az now Armenia Is chiefly a
tableland, 1000 feet above the level Of the
sea, and on one OF its peaks Noah's ark
landed, with its human family and fauna
that were to All the earth. That region was
the birthplace OF the rivers which fertilized
the garden OF Eden when Adam and Eve
lived there, their only roof the crystal skies
n their carpet the emerald OF rich grass.
Its inhabitants, the ethnologists tell US, are
a superior type Of the Caucasian race. Th ,r
religion is founded on the Bible. Their
Saviour Is our Christ. Their crime Is that
they will not become followers OF Mohammsd,
that Jupiter of sensuali,y. To drive them
from the face Of the earth Is the ambition OF
all Mohaumeiaus To accomplish this,
murder Is NO crime, N wholesale mas.
sacrs Is 3 matter OF enthusiastic appro
baton and Governmental reward.
The prayer sanctioned by highest Mohsm-
medau authority and recited every day
throughout Turkey q Egypt, while styling
all those not MohammedAns as in1dels. is as
! follows: 30 Lord OF all creaturesl o Allah
Destroy ths inhdsls and polytheists, thine
enemies, the enemies OF the religion. o
Allah, make their children orphans and defile
their bodies. cause their feet to slip. give
| them and their families, their households
ami their women, their children and their
relatives by marriage, their brothers n
their friends, their possessions and the race,
J their wealth aud their lands as booty to the
Moslems. o Lord Of all creaturesl' The life
of an Armenian In the presence OF those who
make that prayer Is of no mors value thap
| the life OF a summer insec-.
The Sultan Of Turkey sits on a throne i'm
~personating that brigandage and assassina.
lion. At this time all civilized Nations ara
In horror at the att ampts of that Monomme-
dan Government to destroy all the Christians
OF Armenia. 1 hear somebody talking rs
though some new thing were happening. and
that the Turkish Government had taken a
new role OF tragedy on .he stage of Nations.
No, no! She is at the same old business.
Overlooking her diabolism OF other centur.
les, we come down to our century to find
that In 1922 the Turkish Government slew
5000 anti-Moslems. and In 1850 she slew
$1,000, n In 1860 she slew IL 900 and IL
1876 she slew 10000. Anything short OF the
slaughter of thousands OF human beings does
not put enough red wine into her cup Of
abomination to mak 1t worth quaff1ng. Nor
In this the only time she has promised re.
form. In the presence of the warships at
the mouth Of the Dardanelies she has prom.
ised the civilized Nations of the earth that
she would stop her butcheries and the inter
ternational and hemisphere farce has been
enacted OF believing what she says, when all
the past ought to persuade us that she Is
only pausing In her atrocities to put Ma
lions of the track and then resume the work
Of death
In 1890 Turkey In treaty with Russia prom.
fsed to alleviate the condition Of Christians,
but the promise was broken. In 1859 the
then Sultan promised protection OF life and
property without reference to religion, aud
the promise was broken. In 1874, at the de-
mand OF an English minister plenipotentiary,
the Sultan declared after the public execu.
ton OF an Armenian at Constantinople
that no such death penalty should again be
inflicted, and the promise was broken. In
1850. at the demand Of foreign Nations, the
Turkish Government promised protection &c
Protestants, but to this day the Protestant.
at STEAMBOAT are not allowed to build a church,
although they have the funds ready, and
the Greek P~rotestants, who have a church,
are not permitted to worship in II. In
1856, after the Crimean War. Turkey prom
tsed tina. Nc one should be hindered In the
exercise of the religion he protested, anc
that promise has been broken. In 1878. at
the memorable treaty OF Berlin, Turkey
promised religious liberty to all her subjects
In every part of the ottoman Empire, AND
the promise was broken. NOT once In all the
centuries has the Turkish Government KEEP
her promise OF mercy. So far from any i'm
provement, the condition OF the Armenian
has become worse and worse year by year
and all the promises the Turkish Govern,
ment now makes are only q gaining OF time
by which she is making preparation for thu
complete determination OF Christianity FROM
her borders.
No wonder that The ply sicians Of that 70
gton declared that among all the men and
women that were down with wounds and
sickness n under their care not n wanted
to get vol. Remember that nearly all the
reports thzf have some to US of the Turkish
outrsges have been manipulated and modi.
ned and softened by the Turks themselves.
q he story Is not half told, or q hundredtt
part told, or u thousandth part told Mont
but God and our suffering brothers and sis
ters in that far-off and knowSthe wnolestory
and 1t will not be known until in the corona,
lions OF heaven Christ shall lift to a specia
throne Of glory these heroes and heroines
saying, ''These are thay who came out o
great ~tribulation and had their robes washed
and made white In the blood OF thu
Lamb Ny Lord and my God, Thor
didst on the cross suffer for them, but
Thou, surely, o Christ. wilt not forge,
how much they have suffered for Theei ]
dare not deal In imprecation, but l never SO
much enjoyed the tmprecatory. songs OF
David as since L have heard how those Turks
are treating the Armenians. The fact Is,
Turkey has got to be divided up among 9TH
or Nations. or course the European Nation.
must take the chief pan, but Turkey ought
American Mission buildings and American
sc~hoolhouses she has destroyed aud to sup
port the wives and children OF the Ameri
cans ruined by this wholesale butchery
When the English lion and the Russian beai
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 noblest men and wo-
men this side OF heaven. Some OF them men
who took the highest honors at Yale and
Princeton and Harvard and Oxford ane
Edinburgh. Some Of them women, gentle
and most Chnstlike, who, to save people
they never saw turned their backs on iuxu-
rious homes to spend their days In self-expa-
~triation, saying goodby to father and mother
and afterward goodby to their own children
rs circumstances compelled them to 9 the
little ones TO England, Scotland or America
I have seen these foreign missionaries
In their homes all around the world
and stamp with Indignation
upon the literary b~lackguardism OF for.
eign correspondents who have deprecated
these heroes and heroines who are Wiling ttI
live and ole for Christ's sake. They vii
nave the highest thrones In heaven, while
their defamers will not get near enough TO
the shining gates 10 see the faintest CLINT o
any one of the twelve pearls which make "
the twelve gales.
This defamation OF missionaries is aug |
mented by tho absolute English, Americsi
and Scotch merchants who go to toreigi
cides, leaving their families behind them
Those dissolnte merchants In foreign cite
lead a HE OF such gross immorals that TIT
pure households Of the missionaries are !
perpei ual repuke. Buzzards never did Do
heye 10 moves, and II there Is anything ina
nightsbade hates il Is the water lily. VIVA