Birmingham state herald., 1896-11-22
BISHOP sATERLEE's MISSION.

Results of Petition in Behalf of the Ar
 menians Presented to the Czar.
 New York Evening Post.
 A report has just been made public of the results of movement which was be- gun last February, when the bishops of the Protestant Episcopal church in this country joined in an address to the prin- cipal powers of Europe asking them to take action in preventing Armenian atro- cities. The cooperation of the English bishops was asked with view of enlist ing the sympathy of the Church of Eng land. The archbishop of Canterbury whose sympathy with the cause of the Armenians was well known, expressed himself as being willing to do everything in his power in the direction indicated in a letter to Bishop Williams, the presid- ing bishop. It is said that 1t was his suggestion that the movement be made broader than it then was, however, and that the Protestant Christians of the English speaking world, regardless of their forms of creeds, should unite in an appeal to the czar, to be presented to him at or about the time of his corona ton. This general petition was substi- tuted for one which had been prepared by the bishops. The Rev. pr. Henry Y. Satterlee. bishop of Washington, was tra- yelling abroad, and at request he consent ed to be the bearer of the petition to the cZar. The results of this visit are thus stated by Bishop Saterlee:
 Your petition was presented by the Bishop of Washington to their majesties the emperor and empress, at private audience on Aug. 5, and your messenger was graciously accorded another audi ence with the emperor's mother on Aug. '. He explained at both of these audi ences that he came, not in the name of any country or international diplomacy, but simply and only in the name of and in behalf of millions of Christian believers who were Sorrow-stricken at the suffer- ings of their fellow Christians in the east. He added that when the memorial was prepared the subscribers were not aware that the orthodox Christians of Asia Minor and elsewhere were suffering the same kind of persecution as that vis- tied upon Armenia. For this reason the Armenians alone were named in the pe- tition. Had the truth been known the sympathies of the whole Christian people of Great Britain, Ireland and America would have been as warmly enlisted and their appeals as earnest in behalf of all other suffering Christians in the Turkish empire.
 The bishop came home with the convic- ton that God Himself inspired and bless ed the memorial, whatever its results may be. Although no response was made as to the subject matter of the petition. and no manner of promise made, he feels that as he went in the name of Christ, so he was received. He gave the assdr- ance to those to whom the memorial was addressed that the petition had been pre- ceded and would be followed by the pray CTS of the signers And he now, there fore, most earnestly invokes the latter to remember in daily intercession those who are suffering for Christ's name in the east and to pray that Christ Himself will grant to all who can rescue or relieve those our suffering fellow-Christians, that they may perceive and know what things they ought to do. and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfill the same.