The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-13

or a thousanfth part told None but God
and our suffering brothers and sisters in
that rar-oif land know the whole story.
and it VIII not be known until, in the cor
ouatiOus Of heaven. Christ shall lift TO a
special throne OF glory these heroes and
heroiues saying. These are they who
robes washed and made white in the blood
of the lamb! Ny Lord and my Cod
thou oi0st on the cross suffer for them. but
tnoG surely. on christ wit not forget
how much they have suffered for thee-
dare not deal in imDreCatiOn. but never
50 much enjoyed the imprecatcry 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 olner nations, OI course the EIro-
ptan nations musutake the cnleI part, hut
Turkey ought to be compelled 10 pay
America for the American mission build
iugs and American school houses she has
destroyed, and 10 support the wives ana
children OF the Americans ruined by this
wholesale bEtchery. When the English
lion and the Russian bear put their paws
on that TURKEY the American eagle ought
10 put in its bill
Who are these American and Eng4sn
and Scotch missionaries who are being
bounded among the mountains Of Arme-
mia by the AIOhammeuansy The noblest
men and women this side of heaven. some
OF them. men who took the highest hOnorS
at Yale and Princeton and fiarNarQ ana
oxford and Edinburgh. Some of them WO-
men. gentlcst and most Christlike, who,
TO save people they never saw, turned
their days in self-eXpatriation, saving
good by to father and mother. and after
ward good-by to their own children, as
circumstances compel them to send the
little ones TO England. Scotland or Amer
lea. ] have seen these foreign misslOna-
ries in their homes all around the world,
and j stamp with Indignation upon the
literary blackguardism of foreign cores
nondents who have deprecated these he
roes and heroines who are willing TO live
and die for Christs sake. They will have
highest thrones heaven their
defamers will not get near enough 70 the
shining gates 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 disso-
lutte English. American. and Scotch mer-
chants who go 10 foreign cities leaving
lutte merchants in foreign cities lead a life
of such gross minerals that the pure
petual rebuke. Buzzards never did be-
Heve in doves and if there Is anything that
nightshade hates IL is the water lily. What
the five hundred and fifty American mis-
sionaries have suffered in the Ottoman
Empire since 1920 ] leave the archangel to
announce on the day of judgment. You
viii see 1t reasonable that l put 50 much
emphasis on AmerlcaniSm IN the otto
man Empire when tell you that America,
Notwithstanding all the disadvantages
named, has now over 27OO0 students in
day-schools in that empire and $1,000 chill
dren in her Sabbath schools, and that
America has expended in the Turkish En-
pire for its betterment over $l0,0OO000.
Has not America right to be heard
Aye! II will be heard / am glad that
great indignation meetings are being
held all over this sountry. That poor.
weak, coWardly sultan, whom / saw
few years ago ride to his mosque for
worship guarded by 1900 armed men,
many of them mounted on prancing charg-
ers will hear of these sympathetic meet
ings for the Armenians IL not through
American reporters. then through some
OF his 800 wives. What 10 do with him?
There ought to be some St Helena TO
which he could be exiled, while the ma
tions of Europe appoint a ruler of their
own TO clean out and take possession of
the palaces of Constantinople Tonight
this august assemblage in the capital of
the United States, in the name of the
God of Nations indicts the Turkish gov
eminent for the wholesale assassination
IT. Armenia, and invokes the Interference
of Almighty God and the protest of East
ern and Western hemispheres
But what is the duty of the hour? Sym
ate! A religious paper, the Christian
Herald OF New York, has led the way
with munihcent contributions collected
from its subscribers. But the Turkish
government is opposed to any relief of
the Armenian sufferers, as l personally
know. Last August, before had any idea
OF becoming a fellow-citizen with you
Washingtonians, $4,000 for Armenian re-
lief was offered me If 1 would personally
take that relief to Armenia My passage
was to be engaged on the City of Paris
asking II the Turkish government would
grant me protection on such an errand of
mercy. A cablegram said the Turkish
government wished to know to what
points in Armenia / desired to go with
that relief. In our reply, four cities were
named, one of them the scene of what
had been the chief massacre. A cablegram
came from Constantinople saying that /
had better send the money to the Turkish
governments mixed commission and they
would distribute it, So a cobweb of spi-
ders proposed a relief committee for un-
fortunate flies! Well, a man who would
start up through the mountains of Ar
menta with $4,000 and no governmental
protection would be guilty of monumental
foolhardiness. The Turkish government
has, in every possible way, hindered Ar
menian relief Now where is that angel
of mercy, Clara Barton, who appeared on
the battlefields of Fredericksburg, Antie-
tam, Falmouth and Cedar Mountain, and
G Geqman the guns oaaf NJ French nS ps and
and in Johnstown floods, and Charles
ton earthquake, and Michigan fires and
Russian famine? 1t was comparatively of
little Importance that the German en-
peror decorated her with the Iron Cross
for God hath decorated her in the sight
OF all nations with glory that neither
time nor eternity can dim. Born in a
Massachusetts village. she came in her
girlhood to this city to serve our govern
ment in the patent office, but afterward
Office with divine patent signed and seal
ed by God himself to heal all the wounds
she could touch, and make the horrors of
the flood, and fire, and plague, and hos
pital fly her presence God bless Clara
Bartonl Just as ! expected. she lifts the
banner of the Red Cross. Turkey and
all nations are pledged to respect and
defend that Red Cross, although that col
or of cross does not in the opinion of
many stand for Christianity In my
opinion it does stand for Christianity
for was not the cross under which most of
us worship red with the blood of the Son
of God, rcd with the best blood that was
ever shed, red with the blood poured out
for the ransom of the world /?
Then lead on, oh, Red Crossl and let
Clara Barton carry it! The Turkish gov
eminent is bound to protect her, and the
chariots of God are twenty thousand. and
their characters are angels of deliver
ance, and they would all ride down at
once to roll over and trample under the
hoofs of their white horses any of her
assailants May the five hundred thou
sand dollars she seeks be laid at her feet
Then may the ships that carry her across
Atlantic and Mediterranean seas be guild
ed safely by him who trod into sapphire
pavement bestormed Galilee! Upon soil
incarnadned with martyrdom let the Red
Cross be planted. until every demolished
village shall be rebuilded and every pang
of hunger be fed. and every wound of
cruelty be healed, and Armenia stand
with as much liberty to serve God in lis