The Monitor-register., 1896-01-17


defend that Red Cross, although that
color 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, red with the best blood that
was ever shed, red with the blood pour
ed out for the ransom of the world
Then lead on, oh, Red Cross, and let
Clara Barton carry it! The Turkish gov
ernment is bound to protect her, and
the chariots of God are 20, 900 and their
charioteers are angels OF dellVerance,
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 $500, 600 she seeks be laid at
her feet Then may the ships that carry
her across Atlantic and Mediterranean
seas be guided safely by him who trod
into sapphire pavement bestormed Cali
lee. Upon soil incarnadined with martyr
dom let the Red Cross be planted until
every demolished village shall be re-
builded and every pang of hunger be fed
and every wound of cruelty be healed
| and Armenia stand with as much iber-
| ty 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 wor-
ship the Christ who came to set all ma
tions free.
| The Cry of Duty.
| 1t has been said that if we go over
there to interfere on another continent
that will imply the right for other ma
tions to interfere with affairs ON this
continent, and so the Monroe doctrine
be jeopardized. No, mol President
| Cleveland expressed. the sentiment of
every intelligent and patriotic Ameri-
| can when he thundered from the White
| House warning to all nations that
! there is not one acre or one inch more
| OF ground on this continent for any
transatlantic government to occupy.
And by that doctrine we stand now and
| shall forever stand But there is doc
trine as much higher than the Monroe
doctrine as the heavens are higher than
the earth, and that is the doctrine of
humanitarianism and sympathy and
Christian helpfulness which one cold
December midnight, with loud and
multitudinous chant, awakened the
| shepherds. Wherever there is a wound it
| is our duty, whether as individuals or
| as nations, to balsam it. Wherever there
is knife of assassination lifted it is
our duty to ward off the blade. Wher-
ever men are prosecuted for their reli-
gion it is our duty to break that arm of
power, whether it be thrust forth from
| Protestant church, or Catholic ca
thedral, or a Jewish synagogue, or a
mosque of Islam. We all recognize the
right on small scale. If, going down
the road, we find ruffian maltreating
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 30 tons, and the harder we punish
the villain the louder our conscience ap-
plauds US. In such case we do not keep
Dur hands in our pockets, arguing that
Il we interfere with the brute the brute
might think he woGld have right to
interfere with US, and so jeopardize the
Monroe doctrine The fact is that that
persecution of the Armenians by the
Turks must be stopped, or God AL
mighty will curse all Christendom fol
its damnable Indifference and apathy.
to sound for Armenia.
American Sympathy.
Did I say in opening that Oh one OF
| the peaks of Armenia, this very Arme-
MIA 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 aft
er long storm of 40 days and 40 nights,
called the deluge, and that afterward a
dove went forth from that ark and re-
| turned with an olive leaf in her beak?
| Even SO now there is another ark being
| launched, but this one goes sailing not
over deluge of water, but deluge of
| blood-the ark of American sympathy
and that ark, landing on Ararat, from
its window shall fly the dove of kind
| ness and peace to find the olive leaf of
| RETURNING prosperity, Wnlle all Ine
mountains of Moslem prejudice, oppres-
sion and cruelty shall stand Is cubits
under. Meanwhile we would like to
gather all the dying groans of all the
100000 victims of Mohammedan op-
preston and intone them into one pray
er that would move the earth and the
heavens, hundreds of millions of Chris
tians' voices, American and European,
crying out: so God Most High, spare
thy children! With mandate from the
throne hurl back upon their launches
the horses of the Kurdish cavalry. Stop
the rivers Of blood. With the earth
quakes of thy wrath shake the founda-
tions of the palaces of the sultan. Move
all the nations of Europe to command
cessation of cruelty. If need be, let the
warships of civilized nations boom their
indignation. Let the crescent 90 down
before the cross, and the Mighty One,
who hath on his vesture and on his
thigh name written King of Kings
and Lord of Lords, go forth, conquer
ing and to conquer. Thine, o Lord, il
the kingdom Halleluiahl Amenp'