The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-01-18
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cluD OF ASSASSINATION 10 put ti@fu Out
of their misery. No wonder tia tthe
physicians of that region declared
hat among all the men and FStfnen
that were down with woundsand sick
ness and under their care, not one
wanted to get well. Remember that
nearly all the reports that have come
to us of the Turkish outrages have
been manipulated aud modified and
softened by the Turks themselves The
story is not half told, or a hundreuth
part told, or a thousandth part told.
None but God and our suffering broth
ers and sisters in that far of land
know the whole story, and it viii not
be known until in the coronationsof
Heaven Christ shall lift to "a special
throne of glory those heroes and hero
ines, saying: These ars they who
came out OF great tribulation and had
their robes washed and made white Id!
the blood of the Lamblt Ny Eofd,
and my God! Thou didst tls
cross suffer for them, but Tf6nl
surely, On Christi will not fprRet'
how much they have Suffered.
for Thee! / dare not deal in impreea<
ton, but / neser so much enjoyed Is
imprecatory songs of David as sir
ldfO hGata INV ~ ~
ing the Armenians. The fact <
key has got to be divided ur
other nations. OF course, the 11
nations must take the Chic ttt
Turkey ought to be GEM <say
America for the Ame< Skon<
buildings and Americ& tcuSes
she has destroyed, "a *rt the
wives and childrenz 1eficans
ruined by this hatchery.
When the EuRl;61 The Rus
sian zeal put tht/ l hat Tur-
key the Amsz opkht to put
Who are IH+ and English
and Scotch ufc@{ <<fies who are being
bounded anlou4 Ise mountains of Ar
menia by tbs MohammedansP The
noblest men and women this side OF
Heaven. Some of them. men who took
the highest honors at Yale and Prince
ton and Harvard and Oxford and Edin-
burgh. Some of them women, gentlest
and most Christlike, who. to I've peo-
pie they never saw. turned their backs
upon luxurious homes to spend their
days in self.expatriation, saying good
by to father and mother, and after
ward good-by to their own children, as
| CAIChA1otaACCo "a W oCaa
the little ones K England, Scotland
or America. l have seen these foreign
missionaries in their homes all around
the world, and 1 stamp with indigna-
ton upon the literary blackguardism
Of foreign correspondents who have
deprecated these heroes and heroines
who are willing to I've and die for
Christ's sake. They will have the
highest thrones in Heaven, while their
will net get near enough to
the shining gates to see the faiutest
CLINT of any one of the IL pearls which
make up the IL gates
But what is the duty of the hour?
Sympathy, deep, wide, tremendous.
immediatei A religious paper of New
York has led the way with munifcent
contributions collected from it's sub
scribers. But the Turkish government
is opposed to any relief of the Arme-
nian sufferers, as l personally know.
Last August, before / had any idea of
becoming a fellow-citizen with you
Washingtonians, $50. 900 for Armenian
relief was offered me if 1 would per-
sonally take that relief to Armenia.
My passage was to be engaged on the
City of Paris, but u telegram
was sent to Constantinople, ask
ing If 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 l
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 c~ablegram came
from Constantinople saying | had bet
ter send the money to the Turkish
governments mixed commission and
they would distribute ii. So a cobweb
of spiders proposed a relief committee
for up fortunate fiiesi Well, a man
who would start up through the mount
aims of Armenia with $50, 600 and no
government protection would be
guilty of monumental foolhardiness.
The Turkish government has in ev-
cry possible a liindered Armenian
relief. Now where is that angel of
The battietields OF fredericksburg, An
tietam, Falmouth and Cedar mountain, |
md under the blaze of French and Ger
man guns at Metz and Paris. and in
Johnstown floods and Charleston
q bttAAahC db0 HilCitSan hECSs Iii
Russian famine? II was comparatively
Of little Importance that the German
.mporer decorated her with the Iron
the sight of all nations with a glory
that neither time nor eternity can
lin. Born in a Massachusetts viii
lage, she came in her girlhood
to this city to serve our government
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went forth from the doors of that
patent office with a divine patent,
signed aud sealed by God himself, to
heal ell the wounds she could touch,
and make the horrors of the flood, and
are. and plague. and hospital, fly her
God bless Clara BartonJ
Just as l expected, shs lifts the banner
Of the Red Cross. Turkey and ALI ma
lions are pledged TO respect and defend
that Red Cross, although that color of
dress does not, in the opinion Of many,
stand for Christianity. In my opinion
Il 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
world?
Then lead on, oh, Red Crossi and let
Barton carry it The Turkish
government is bound to protect her,
and the chariots of God are 90. 900. and
their charioteers are angels of deliver
and they would all tide down at
to roll over and trample under
the hoofs of their white horses any of
her a~ssailants- May the $500, 900 she
be laid at her feetl Then may
ships that carry her across ATLANTIC
md Mediterranean seas be guided safe
ly by Him who trod into sapphire
pavement bsstormed Galileel Upon
soil incarnadined with partrydom, let
the red cross be planted, until every
village shall be rebuilded,
and every pang of hunger be fed, and
every wound of cruelty he healed, and
Armenia stand with as much liberty to
serve God in its way as in this,
the best land of all the earth, we, the
of the Pnritans and Hol-
and H~uguenots. are free to
worship the Christ who came to set all