The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-17

| ilFiHS, anu the TAX is called the nu-
initiation tax" They are compelled to
give three days entertainment to any
Mohammedan tramp who may be pass
ing that way. They must pay blackmail
to the assessor, lest he report the value
of their property too highly. Their
evidence in court is OF no worth, and if
nifty Armenians saw a wrong commit
ted and one Mohammedan was present.
the testimony Of the one Mohammedan
would be taken and the testimony OF
the fifty Armenians rejected; in other
words, the solemn oath of thousand
Armenians would not be strong enough
to overthrow the perjury of one Moham-
medan. A professor was condemned to
death for translating the English Book
OF Common Prayer into Turkish. Sew
enteen Armenians were sentenced to
fifteen years Imprisonment for rescu-
ing Christian bride fom the bandits.
This is the way the Turkish govern
ment amuses itself in time OF peace.
These are the delights Of Turkish civil
cation. 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,
he must do so in well-poised and eau
tious vocabulary. Hundreds Of villages
destroyed! Young men put in piles Of
bfushwood, 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
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dead and dying hurled into the same
pit! The slaughter of Lucknow and
Cawnpore, India, in 1857, eclipsed in
ghastliness! The worst scenes of the
French revolution in Paris made more
tolerable in contrast! In many regions
OF Armenia the only undertakers to-
day are the jackals and .hyenas. Many
Of the chiefs of the. massacres were
sent straight from Constantinople to do
their work, and having returned, were
decorated by the Sultan. To four of
the worst murderers the Sultan sent
silk banners, in delicate appreciation
Of their services. Five hundred thou
sand Armenians put to death or dying
Of starvation This moment, while
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. 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. Remember that nearly
all the reports that have come to us of
the Turkish outages have been manipu-
lated and modified and softened by the
Turks themselves. The story is not
half told, or a hundredth part told. or
thousandth part told. None but God
and our suffering brothers and sisters
in that far-off land know the whole
story, and it will not be known until,
in the coronations Of heaven, Christ
shall lift to a 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
Lamb" My Lord and my God! thou
thou, surely, Oh Christ: wilt not for
get how much they have suffered for
thee! | dare not deal in inprecation,
but / never so much enjoyed the i'm
predatory songs OF David as since |
have heard how those Turks are treat
ing the Armenans. The fact is Turkey
mas got to be divided up among other
tia
tons must take the chief pavt, 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 Russian
bear put their paws on that Turkey the
American eagle ought to put il its bill.
These dissolute merchants in foreiga
cities lead life of such gross immoral3
that the pure households of the mis-
sionaries are perpetual rebukc. Bu2-
yards never did believe in doves, and il
there is anything that nightshade hates
it is the water lily. What the five hun
dred and fifty American m;ssionarie |
have suffered in the Ottoman Empire |
since 1920 leave the archangel to an
nounce on the day OF judgment. You |
will see it reasonable that | put so
much emphasis on Americanism in the !
Ottoman Empire when / tell you that |
America, Notwithstanding all the dis !
advantages named has now over o. |
600 students in day-schools in that en- |
pire and $4,000 children in her Sabbath I
schools, and that America has expend- |
ed in the Turkish Empire for its bet
torment over $l0000000 Has not |
America a right to be heard? Aye! it !
will be heard. | am glad that great |
Indignation meetings are being held |
all over this country. That poor, weak, !
cowardly sultan, whom | saw a few |
years ago ride to his mosque for wor- |
ship, guarded by 1000 armed men. !
many of them mounted on prancing !
chargers, will hear of these sympa-
thet;c meetings for the Armenians. if |