Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-01-17

| VINO look the highest n0nOr5 III lac anu
Princeton and Harvard and Oxford and
Edinburgh. Some of them woman, gentle
and most Chrstlike, who, to save people
they never saw, turned their backs on luxu-
rious homes to spend their days in self-expa-
triation, saying goodby to father and mother
and arterward goodby to their own children
as circumstances compelled them to send the
little ones to England, Scotland or America.
l have seen these foreign missionaries
in their homes all around the world,
and 1 stamp with indignation
upon the literary blackguar1ism OF for
eign correspondents who have deprecated
these heroes and heroines who are willing TO
live and die for Christ's cake. They will
have the highest thrones in heaven, while
their defamers will not get near enough to
the shining gates 10 see the faintest CLINT of
any one of the twelve pearls which make up
the twelve gates.
This defamation OF missionaries is aug
mented by the dissolute Englis1, American
aud Scotch merchants who go to foreign
cities, leaving their families behind them.
Those disso!nte merchants in foreign cities
lead life of such gross immorals that the
pure households Of the missionaries are a
perpetual rebuke. Buzzards never did be-
lieve in doves, and IL thcre is anything that
nightshade hates it is the water lily. What
in the Ottoman E upire since 1922 leave the
archangel to announce on the day of judg-
ment. You will see it reasonable that put
50 much emphasis on Amercanism in the
Ottoman Empire when tell you that Amer
lea, notwithstanding all the disadvantages
named. has now over 81 900 students in day
schools in that Empire and 5000 children
in her Sabbath schools, and that America
has expended in the Turkish Empire for its
betterment over $l0,0O0,000. Has not
| America right to be heard? Aye, 1t
will be heardl 1 am glad that great in
dignalion meetings are being held all over
| this country. That poor, weak, cowardly
Sultan, whom saw few years ago ride to
his mosque for worship, guarded by 7OOJ
armed men, many OF them mounted on
prancing chargers, will hear of these sym
pathetic meetings for the Armenlans,
if not through American reporters
then through some of his $50 wives.
What to do with him2 There ought to ba
some St. Helena to which he could be exiled
while the Nations Of Europe appoint ruler
of their own to clean out and take possession
of the palaces Of ConstanhnopIe. Tonight
this august asssmb!aCe in the capital of the
| United States. in the name OF the God OF
Nations, iudicts thu Turkish Government for
the who esale assassination in Armenia and
invokes the interference of Almighty God
and the protest Of Eastern and Western
HOmispheres.
But what is the duty Of the hour2 Sym
pathy, deep, wide, tremendous, immediate!
A religious paper the Christian Herald, of
New YORK, has led the way with munifcent
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 fellow citizen with
you Neutrality-suspicious., $4,000 for Armenian
relief was offered me il ] would personally
take that relief to Armenia. My passage was
to be engaged on the City of Paris, but a
telegram was sent to ConstantinoDle asking
If the Turkish Government would grant me
protection on such an errand OF mercy.
A cablegram said the Turkish Govern
ment 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 cablegr1m came from Constan-
tinople saying that L had better seni the
money to the Turkish Governments mixed
commission, an they would distribute it..
So a co5we5 of spiders proposed relief
committee for unfortunate flies. Well, q
man who would start up through the noun
tains of Armenia with 900 aud no Gov
eminent protection would be guilty of monu-
mental foolhardiness. The Tur ish Govern
ment has in every possible way hindered
Armenian RELIEF.
Now whereas that angel of mercy, Clara
Barton, who appeared on the battlefields OF
fredericksburg Antietam, Falmouth ano
Cedar Mountain and uader the blaze OIL
French and German guns at Metz an Paris
and in Joinstown floods and Charlestown
earthquake and Michigan fires and Russian
famine? It was comparatively Of little i'm
portance that the German Emperor dec
crate her with the Iron Cross, for God hath
decorated her in the sight OF all Nation;
with a glory that neither time nor eternity
can dim. Born in a Massachusetts village
she came in her girlhood TO this cityto serve
our Government in the patent Office, but az
terward went forth from the doors OF tina
patent Office with divine patent signed anc
sealed by God Himself to heal all the wounds
she could touch and make the horrors OF the
food and fire and plague and hospita
ay her presence. God bless Clara Barton
Just as expected, she lifts the banner of the
Red Cross. Turkey and all Nations are
pledged to respect and defend that Re-
Gross. although that color Of cross does not
in the opinion of many. stand for Christian
ity In my opinion it does stand for Chris
tianitv 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 wa
ever shed. red with the blood pouring GU
for the ransom of the world? Then lead Oh
Oh. Rel Cross, and let Clara Barton carry it
The Turkish Government is bound to protec
her. and the c5ariots of God are 10000 anf
their charioteers are angels of deiverance
and they would all ride down at once to rol
over and trample under the hoofs o
their white horses any of her assai ants
Nav the $50, 900 she seeks be laid at her
feel Then may the ships that carry her
across Atlantic and Mediterranean seas be
guidel safely by Him who tro1 into sapphire
pavement bestormei Galilee. Upon soil in
carnadine1 with martyrdon let the Re
Gross be planted until every demolished vii
lage shall be rehulde1 and every ptng oil
hunger be fel and every wounl OF cruelty
be healed and Armenia stand with as much
liberty to serve I'D in its owl way as In
This the best land of all the earth, we, the
defendants OF the Puritans AMI H)llandera
and Huguenots, are free to worship tn
Christ who came to set all Nations free.
1t has been said that il we go over there Il
Interfere on another continent that will i'm
DIV the right for other Nations to interior
with affairs on this continent, and so tn
Monroe doctrine he jeopardized No. no
President Cleveland expressed the sentmen
of every intelligent and patriotic America
when he Numbered from the White House
warning to all Nations that there IS not on
acre or one inca more OF ground on thi
continent for any transatlantic Government
to occupy. And by that doctrine We slan'
now and shall forever stand. But there IS
, doctrine as much higher than the Monroe
doctrine as the heavens are higher than tn
earth and that is the doctrine OF human
itarianism and sympathy and Christian help
fitness which one cold December midnight
with loud AMI mutitudinous chant