The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-17

mercy, Clara Barton, who appeared or
the battlefields of Fredericksbur An
tietam. Falmouth and Cedar mountain,
and under the blaze of French and Ger
man guns at Metz and Paris, and IN
Johnstown foods and Charleston
earthquake, and Michigan fires, and
Russian famine? 1t was comparatively
of little Importance shat the German
emperor decorated her with the Iron
Cross, for God had decorated her in
the sight of all nations with a glory
that neither time nor eternity can
dim. Born in a Massachusetts, viii
lage, she came in her girlhood
| to this city 20 serve oar government
/ in the patent office but afterwards
went forth from the doors of that
patent Office with a divine patent,
/ signed and sealed by God himself. to
| heal all the wounds she could touch,
/ and make the horrors of the food. aud
/ fire, and plague, and hospital, fy her
| presence. God bless Clara BartOnl
| Just as / expected. she lifts the banner
of the Red Cross Turkey and all na-
tions are pledged to respect and defend
/ that Red Cross, although that color of
! 0ACoS uOCS nut III tue ODLUlOI VI IilduEp
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, red with the best blood that
was ever shed, red with the blood
/ poured out for the ransom Of the
| wOrld9
Then lead on, oh, Red Cross. and let
/ Clara Barton carry it The Turkish
/ government is bound to protect her.
and the chariOts of God are 10000 and
their characters are angels of deliver
ance, aud they would all tide down at
once TO roll over and trample under
the hoofs of their white horses any of
her assailantS May the 100000 she
seeks be laid at her feeti Then may
the ships that carry her across Atlantic
and Mediterranean seas be guided safe
" by Him who trod into sapphire
pavement bestormed Galilee, Upon
soil incarnadined with martrydOm, 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 its own way as in this,
the best land Of all the earth, we, the
descendants of the Puritans and Hol-
landers and Huguenots, are free to
worship the Christ who came to set all
nations freei
1t has been said that if we go over
there to interfere on another conti-
nent, that will imply the right for
other nations to interfere with affairs
Cd this continent, and so the Monroe
doctrine is jeopardized. No, 10! Pres
ident Cleveland expressed the senti-
ment of every intelligent and patriotic
American when he Numbered from the
white house a warning to all nations,
that there is not one acre or one inch
more of ground on this continent for
any transatlantic government TO Oc-
cupy. And by that doctrine we stand
now and shall forever stand. But
there is a doctrine as much higher
than the Monroe doctrine as the heav-
ems are higher than the earth, and
that is the doctrine of humanitarian
ism and sympathy and Christian help
fulness, which one cold December mid
night. with loud and multitudinOus
chant, awakened the shepherds
Wherever there is a wound it is our
duty, whether as individuals or as ma
tions, 70 balsam it Wherever there is
knife of assassination lifted it Is our
duty to ward off the blade.
Wherever men are persecutel for
their religion it is our duty TO realx
that arm of power. whether it be
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or a Catholic cathedral or a Jewish
synagogue or mosque of Islam We
all recognize the right on a small
scale II. going down the road, we
find ruffian maltreating a child. or .
human brute insulting a woman, we
take hand in the contest if we are
not towards, and though we BE-
slight in personal presence, because
of our Indignation we come to weigh
about twenty tons, and the harder
we punish the villain the louder QUIZ
conscience applauds us In such cases
we do not keep our hands in our pOck-
cts, arguing that if we interfere with
the brute the brute might think he
had a right to interfere with US. and 50
jeopardize the Monroe doctrine. The
TACT - LndI tue persecution OF the Ar
menians by the Turks must be stopped,
or God Almighty will curse all Christ
epdom for for its damnable indiffer-
ence and apathy. But the trumpet OF
resurrection is about To sound
for Armenia Did l say in opening
that on one of the peaks of Armenia,
this very Armenia of which we
speak. in Noah's time the ark landed,
according to the myth, as some think,
but according to Gods ''say-so," as
know, and that it was after a long
storm of 40 days and 20 nights, called
the deluge, and that afterward dove
went forth from the ark and returned
with an Olive leaf in her beak? Even,
50 now, there is another ark being
launched, but this one goes sailing, not
over a deluge of water, bat deluge Of
bloOd-the ark of American sympathy
of kindness and peace. to find the olive
leaf of returning prosperity, while all
the mountains of MoSlem prejudice,
oppression and cruelty shall stand Is