The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-22
THE CRY OF ARMENIA.
DR.. TALMAGE RELATES The HON
RORS OF THE MASSACRE.

r,r+v of the Nations to stop Fer-
secution-cnri,senaora' Apathy.
WASHINGTON. Jan. l2.-it was ap-
nropriate that in the presence o. Tie
Chief men Of this nation end otaer ma
tons DR.. Talmage should te!l the story
of Armenian massacre. What WILDE
the extent or good OF such a discourse
none can tell. The text was ! iAngs
xix, 81, They escaped into The land o.
Armenia.
time that Armenia appears, ca.leotnen
by the same name as low. ARMENIA
is chiefly tableland. 7,02J feet above
the level Of the sea, and on one OF lis
peaks Noah's ark landed wita rs h1-
man family and fauna that were to
fill tne earth. That region was the
birthplace of the rivers which ternl-
lied the garden Of Eden when Adam
and Eve lived there, the only roof the
crystal skies and their carpet the EN-
erald of rich grass. It's lnhao-!an's,
the ethnologists tell us, are superior
type of the Caucasian race: IAe5: ~: re-
Iieion is founded on the blnie- He!r
Saviour is our Christ. Ihe!: CRIME IS
that they will not become followers
of Mohammed, that Jupiter OF SeASn.
sl;ty. To drive them from the lace OF
the earth IS the ambition Of all Mo
hammedans. To accomplish this mur-
der is no crime, and wholesale massa-
ere is a matter Of enthusiastic appro-
baton and governmental reward.
The prayer sanctioned by highest
Mohammedan authority and reciteo
every day throughout Turkey and
Egvpt. while styling all those not Mo
hammedans as infdels, IS as follows;
90 Lord of all creatures, . Allan,
DESTROY the infdels and poiEthelSiS,
thine enemies, the enemies OF the re
Epion, O Allah, make their children
orphans and defle their bodies. Cause
their feet to slip, give them ana their
families, their households and :helr
women, their children and their rela-
tives py marriage, their brothers and
their friends, their possessions and the
race. their wealth and their land as
booty to the Moslems, Q Lord OF all
creaturs,
The life of an Armenian in the pres
ence of those who make that prayer IS
of no more value than the life OF a
summer insect. The sultan OF Turkey
sits on u throne impersonatlng tnat
brigandaee and Assassination. At
this time all civilized nations are IL nor
ror at the attempts Of that Mohamme-
dan government to destroy all the
Christians of Armenia. | hear some
body talking as though some new
thing were, happening, and that the
Turkish government had taken ne"
role of tragedy onthe stage OF nations.
No. no. She is at the same old bUsl-
ness. Overlooking her diabollsm OF
other centuries, we come down to our
century to find that in 1922 the Turk
ish government slew so, 600 anu-Mos-
lens. and in 1850 she slew 10,O0O, and
in 1860 she slew 11.0C0, and IN 1876
she slew 10000. Anything short OF
the slaughter Of thousands OF human
beings does not put enough red VINE
into her cup of abomination TO make 1t
worth ouafhng. Nor is this the only
time she has promised reform. In the
presence of the warships at the mouth
of the Dardanells she has promised
the civilized nations Of the earth that
she would stop.her butcheries, and the
international and hemisphere farce
has been enacted of believing what she
SAYS, when all the past out to persuade
us that she is only pausing in her
atrocities to put nations off the track
and then resume the work Of death.
In 1920 Turkey, in treaty with Rus
sia, promised to alleviate the condition
of Christians, but the promise was
broken. In 1889 the then sultan prom
ised protection of life and property
without reference to oreligion, and the
promise was broken. In 1914, at the
demand of an English minister plenl-
potentiary, the sultan declared, after
the public execution of an Armenian
at Constantinople, that no such death
penalty should again be inflicted, and
the promise was broken. In 1850, at
the demand of foreign nations, the
Turkish government promised protec-
ton to Protestants, but to this day the
Protestants at Stamboul are not al
lowed to build a church, although they
have the funds ready, and the Greek
Protestants, who have church are
not permitted to worship IN 1t. In
. 1856, after the Crimean war, Turkey
promised that no one should be him
dered in the exercise of the religion he
professed, and that promise has been
broken. In 1873, at the memorable
treaty of Berlin, Turkey promised re-
igious liberty to all her subjects IN
eYerv part of the Ottoman empire, and
the promise was broken. Not once IN
all the centuries has the Turkish gov
ernment kept her promise Of mercy.
So far from any improvement the con-
dition of the Armenians has become
worse and worse year by year, and FL
the promises the Turkish government
now makes are only gaining of time
by which she is making preparations
for the complete determination Of
Christianity from her borders.
Why, after all the national and con-
tinental and hemisphere lying on the
part of the Turkish government, do
not the warShips of Europe ride up as
close as is possible to the palaces Of
Constantinople and blow that accursed
government to atomsa In the name
of the eternal God let the nuisance Of
the ages be wiped off the face Of the
EARTH Down to the perdition from
which it smoked up sink Mohamme-
danism. Between these outbreaks Of
massacre the Armenians suffer N 81
lence wrongs that are seldom if ever
reported. They are taxed heavily for
the mere privilege of living, and the
tax is called ''the humiliation tax"
They are compelled to give three days
entertainment to any Mohammedan
tramp who may be passing that way
They must pay blackmail to the asses
sor, lest he report the value of their
property too highly. Their evidence
oE,