The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-24
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Russian famine2 1t was comparative
IL of little Importance that the Ger
man emperor decorated her with the
Iron Cross, for God hath decorated
her in the sight of all nations
with a glory that neither time nor
eternity can dim. Born in Massa-
chusetts village, she came in her girl
hood to this city to serve our govern
ment in tho patent Office, but after
ward went forth from the doors OF
that patent office with divine patent
signed and sealed by God himself, to
heal all the wounds she could touch,
and make the horrors of the flood, and
fire, and plague, and hospital fly her
presence. God bless Clara Bartonl
just as 1 expected, she lifts the
banner of the Red Cross. Turkey
and all nations are pledged to re-
spect and defend that Red Cross, al
though that color of cross does not, in
the opinion of many, stand for Chris
tianity. In my opinion it does stand
for Christianity, for was not the cross
under which most of us worshiped 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 Cross! and let Clara Barton
carry it! The Turkish government is
bound to protect her, and the chariots
of God are 10000, and their charioteers
are angels of deliverance, 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 100000 she
seeks be laid at her feetl Then may
the ships that carry her across Allan
tic and Mediterranean seas be guided
safely by Him who trod into sapphire
pavement beStormed Galileel Upon
soil incardined with martyrdom let the
Red Cross be planted, until every de-
molished 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 it's own way as in this
the best land of all the earth, we, the
descendants of the Puritans and Hol-
| landerS, and Hugenots, are free to wor-
ship the Christ who came to set all na-
tions freel
1t has been said that If we go over
there to interfere on another con-
tinent, that will imply the right for
other nations to interfere with affairs
on this continent, and so the Monroe
| doctrine be jeopardized. No, mol Pres
ident Cleveland expressed the senti-
ment of every intelligent and patriotic
American when he thundered from
the White House warming to
all nations, that there is not one
acre or one inch more of ground
on this continent for any trans
atlantic government to occupy. And
by that doctrine we stand now and
shall forever stand. But there is a.
doctrine as much higher than the Mon
roe 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 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.
Wherever men are prosecuted for their
religion it is our duty to break that
forth from a Protestant church or a
Catholic cathedral, or Jewish syna-
gogue or a mosque of Islam. We all
recognize the right on a small
scale. If going down the road,
we find ruffian maltreating a
child, or a human brute insulting
woman, we take hand in the con-
test if we arc not towards, and, though
we be slight in personal presence, be-
cause of our Indignation we come to
weigh about 20 tons, and the harder
we punish the villain the louder our
conscience applauds us. In such case
we do not keep our hands in our poclS-
cts arguing that il we interfere with
the brute the brute might think he
would have right to interfere with
us, and so jeopardize the Monroe doc
trine.
The fact is that that persecution of
the Armenians by the Turks must be-
stopped, or God Almighty will curse
all Christendom for its damnable in
difference and apathy. But the
trumpet of resurrection is about to
sound for Armenia. Did say in open
ing that on one of the peaks of Arr
menia, 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 l know, and that
it was after long storm of 40 days
and 40 nights, called the Delugc, and
that afterward dove went forth from
that ark and returned with an olive
leaf in her beak2 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 sym
pathy-and that ark, landing on Ara
rat, from its window shall fly the dove
of kindness and peace, to find the olive
leaf of returning prosperity, while all
the mountains of Moslem prejudice,
and cruelty shall stand Is
cubits under. Meanwhile, we would
like to gather all the dying
groans of all the 100000 victims of
Mohammedan oppression, and intone
them into one prayer that would move
the earth and the heavens, hundreds
of millions of Christian voices, Amer,
lean and European, crying ont: 20,
God Most Hight Spare Thy children.
With manduto from the throne hurl
back upon their launches the horses
of the Kurdish cavalry. Stop the
rivers of blood. With the earthquakes /.
Of Thy wrath shake the foundations
of the palaces of the sultan. Move
all the nations of Europe to command
cessation of cruelty. If need be, let
the war ships of civilized nations boom
their iudiQuafiou Let the crescent