The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-01-22
ARMENIAN HORRORS.
REV DIR. TALMAGE TELLS The STORY
OF MoAAMMEOAN CRUELTY.

An EIoooeDt and Fervid Appeal - The
Caward!y Sultan Excoriated-HaS Amer
ica the Right to BE Hea7d?-CiSrS BAY
ten and the Red Cross.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-It was apP:o.
pirate that in the presence OF the chlel
men Of this nation and other nations !
DR. Talmace should tell the story OF Ar
.neDian massacre. What Will be tho eX-
tent for good of such {. discourse none
can tell. The text was II Kings XIX,
81. eThey escaped into the land Of Ar
menia. "
In Bible geography this is the first
time that Armenia appears, called 1nen
by the same name as now. Armenia Is
chiefly tableland, 1000 feet above the
level of the sea, and on one OF It's peaks
Noah's ark landed, with its human
family and fauna that were to MI the
earth. That region was the birthplace
Of the rivers which fertilized the garden
of Eden when Adam and Eve hYeo
there, their only roof the crystal SKIES
and their carpet the emerald OF rlch
grass. It's inhabitants, the ethnolos1sts
tell us, are a superior type Of the Caa-
casian race. Their religion is founded
on the Bible. Their Saviour is our
Christ. Their crime is that they Will not
become followers of Mohammed, that ju'
piter of sensuality. To drive them IRON!
the face of the earth is the ambition OF
all Mohammedans. 70 accomplish this,
murder is no crime, and wholesale mas
sacre is O matter Of enthusiastic appr2'
baton and governmental reward.
The PRAYER sanctioned by highest Mo-
hammedan authority and reclted every
9ay throughout Turkey and Egypt
while styling all those not Mohamme-
dams as infidels, Is as follows: 80 LORD
of all creatQresl O Allah Destroy the
infdels and polytheists, thine enemies
the enemies Of the religion. . Allan,
make their children orphans and dehIe
their bodies, cause their feet TO Slip
give them and their families, their
households and their women, their chill
dreu and their relatives by marriage,
their brothers and their friends, their
possessions and the race, their wealth
and their lands as booty to the Mos
lens, o Lord Of all creatureSH' The
life Of an Armenian IN the presence or
those who make that prayer is OF no
more value than the life Of summer
insect.
Statistics of Slaughter.
The sultan of Turkey sits on throne
impersouating that brigandase and as
sassipation. st this time all civilized
nations are in horror at the attempts Of
that Mohammedan government to de-
stroy all the Christians Of Armenia.
hear somebody talking as though some
new thing were happening, and that the
Turkish government had taken new
role of tragedy on the stage Of nations.
No, no! She is at the same old business.
Overlooking her diabolism Of other cel-
turies, we come down to our century
to find that in 1929 the Turkish gov
ernment slew so, 000 anti-Moslems, and
in 1850 she slew 10000, ard in 1860
she slew H., 900 and IN 1876 she slew
10000. Anything short of the slaughter
of thousands Of human beings does not
put enough red wine into har cup Of
ebomination to make it worth quafIing.
Nor is this tho oaIy time she has prom
ised reform. In the presence Of the war
ships at the mouth Of the Dardanelles
she has promised tho 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 ought to persuade us that she IS
only pausiug in her atrocities to pat na-
tions off the track and then resume the
work Of death.
In 1920 Turkey in treaty with Russia
promised to alleviate the condition CT
Christians, but the promise was broken.
In 1889 the then saltan promised pro-
lection Of life and property without ref
erence to religion, and the promise was
broken. In 1874, at the demand Of an
English minister plenipotentiary, the
sultan declared after the public execu-
ton of an Armenian at Constantirople
that no such death penalty should again
be inflicted, and the promise was broken.
In 1850, at the demand Of foreign ma
tions, the Turkish government promised
protection to Protestants, but TO this
day the Prctestants at Stambcul are not
allowed to build a church, although
they have the funds ready, and the
Greek Protestants, who have church,
are not permitted to worship IN it. In
1856, after the Crimean war, Turkey
promised that 10 one should be hindered
in the exercise Of the religion he pro-
fessed, and that promise has been broken,
In 1878, at the memorable treaty Of
Berlin, Turkey promised religious lib
erty to all her subjects il every part Of
the Ottoman empire, and the promise
was broken. Not once in all the cen
turies has the Turkish government kept
her promise Of mercy. So far from any
Improvement, the condition Of the Ar
menians has become worse and worse
wear by year, aud ali the promises the
Turkish government now makes are only
O gaining Of time by which she is max
ing preparation for the complete exter-
mination Of Christianity from her bor-
ders.
The Nuisance Of the Ages.
w n.y. a. iSL al lOO DNNAO4ASRA S@41NA SS1
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 Constan-
tinople and blow that accursed govern
ment to atoms? 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 1t
smoked up sink Mohammedanism! Be
tween these outbreaks of massacre the
Armeniaps suffer in silence wrongs that
are seldom if ever reported. They are
taxed heavily for the mere privilege of
living, and the tax is called 1.-THE hu-
initiation tax. They are compelled to
give three days entertainment to any
Mohammedan tramp who may be pass
ing that way. They must pay blackmail