Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-01-16


pie, freezing In the ashes of their destroyed
homes bcrcft of most Of their households
and awaiting the club of assassination to
put thom out of their misery No wonder
that the physicians Of that region declared
that among all the men and women that
were down with wounds and sickness and
under thoir care not one wanted to got
we'll. Remember that nearly NIL the re-
ports that have come to us of tho Turkish
outrages have been manipulated and modi-
fed and softoncd by the Turks themselves.
The story is not half told, or hundredth
part told, or thousnndth part told.
Mono but God and our suffering brothers
and sisters In that faroff land know tho
whole story, and it will not be known I'M
til. in tho coronations of heaven, Christ
shall lift to o special throne of glory these
heroes and heroines, saying, "These arc
they who came out of great trbulation
and had their robes washed and made
white in tho blood of the Lan1b'' My
Lord and my Cod thou didst on tho cross
suffer for thom, but thou surely, O Christ,
wilt not forget how much thoy have suf-
fcred for thce ] dare not deal in impro-
cation, but l mover 80 much enjoyed the
imprecatory songs of David as since l have
heard how those Turks arc treating tho
to bo divided up among other nations
OF course tho European nations must tako
the chief part, but Turkey ought to DO
compelled to pay America Tor tho Amcri-
can mission buildings and American
schoolhouscs she has destroyed and to sup
port the wives and children of the Ameri-
cans ruined by this Wholesale butchery.
When tho English lion and the Russian
bear put their paws on that Turkey, the
! American eagle ought to put in its bill.
Missionary Heroes.
Who ore these American and English
and Scotch missionaries who are being
bounded among the mountains of Ar
mcnia by the Mohammedans? The nOblest
men and women this side of heaven,
some of thcm men who took tho highest
honovs at Yale and Princeton and Harvard
and oxford and Edinburgh; some of
those women, Rentlest and most Christ
like, who, to save people they never saw,
turned their backs on luxurious homes to
spend thur days in self repatriation, say
ing goodby TO father and mother and af-
forward coodby to their own children, as
circumstances compel them to send the lit
tie ones 10 england, Scotland or America.
| have seen these foreign missionaries in
their homes all around tho world, and l
stamp with Indignation upon the literary
blackguardism of foreign correspondents
who have deprecated these heroes and
hcroincs who are willing to live and die
for Christ's sake. They will have tho
highest thrones in heaven, while their de-
famers will not get near enough to tho
shining gates to SEQ the faintcst CLINT OF
any one of the IL pearls which make up
the 10 gates
montcd by tho dissoluto English, American
and Scotch merchants who 20 to foreign
cities, leaving their families behind them.
Those dissolutc merchants In foreign cities
lead life of such gross minerals that tho
pure households of the missionaries are
perpetual rebuke. Buzzards never did be-
licvo in doves, and If there is anything
that nightshade hates it is the water lily.
What the 300 American missionaries have
suffered in tho Ottoman empire since 1890
/ leave the arohangel to announce on tho
day of Judgment. You will SEQ it reason
able that l put so much emphasis on
Americanism in the Ottoman empire when
j tell you that America, Notwithstanding
oil the disadvantages named, has now over
$1,000 students in day schools in that ON
piro and 35, 900 children in her Sabbath
schools, and that America has expended
in the Turkish empire for its betterment
ovor $40 100000 Has not Amcricaa right
to be heardY Ayel 1t will DO heard
am glad that great Indignation meetings
are being held all over this country. That
poor, weak, cowardly sultan, whom l SAW
few years ago ride to his mosque for
worship, guarded by 1000 armed men,
many of them mounted on prancing
chargers, will hear of these sympathetic
meetings for the Armonians, if not through
American reporters, then through some of
his 360 wives. What to do with him?
There ought to be some st. Helena to
which he could DO exiled, while the nations
of Europe appoint ruler of their own to
clean out and take possession OF the pal
aces Of Constantinople. Tonight this au-
gust asscmblagei in the capital of the Unit
ed States, in the name of tho God of ma
tions, indicts the Turkish government for
the wholesale assassination In Armenia
and invokes the interference of Almighty
God and the protest of eastern and western
homispheros.
Duty of the Hour.
But what is tho duty of the hourp
Sympathy, deep, wide, tremendous, i'm
mediatc A religious paper, The Chris.
tian Herald of Now York, has led tho
locted from subscribers. But the Turkish
government is opposed to any relief Of the
Armenian sufferers, as personally know.
Last August, before had any idea Of hc-
coming follow citizen with you Wash
ingtonians, $50, 900 for Armenian relief
was offered me If | would personally take
that relief to Armenia. My passage was
TO he engaged on the City of Paris, but q
telegram was sent to Constnntinople, ask
ing If the Turkish government would
grant mo protection on such an errand OF
mercy. y cablcgram said the Turkish
government wished to know to what
points in Armenia l desired to 90 with
that relief In our reply four cities were
named, one Of them the scene Of what had
been the chief massacre. A cablegram
came from CGnstantinople saying that l
mad bcttor send the money To tho Turkish
governments mixed commission, and thoy
would distribute II. So oobweb of spi-
ders proposed a relief committee for unfor-
tunate fiies Well, man who would
,tart up through tho mountains Of Ar
ncnia with s5o, 900 and no governmental
protection would be guilty Of monumental
looihardlncas
The Turkish government has in every
possible way hindorcd Armenian relief.
Now where Is that angel of mercy Clara
Barton, who appeared on the battlefields
of Fredericksburg, Antotam Falmol th
and Cedar Mountain, and undor the blaze
Of French and German guns at Meta and
Paris and In Johnstown floods, and
Charleston earthquake, and Michigan
lrrs, and Russian faminoS 1t was COM