The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-01-24

en-, gentleSt and most CErlSt like, VINO
to save people they never saw, turned
their backs on luxurious homes te
spend their days in self-expatria.
ton, saying good-by to father and
mother, and afterward good-by to their
own children, as circumstances compel
them to send the little ones to En-
gland, Scotland or America. have
seen these foreign missionaries in their
homes all around the world, and |
stamp with indignation upon the liter
airy blackguardism of foreign corre-
spondents who have deprecated these
heroes and heroines who are willing to
live and die for Christ's sake. They
will have the highest thrones in
Heaven, while their defamers will not
get near enough to the shining gate to
see the faintest CLINT of any one OF
the twelve pearls which make up the
twelve gates. This defamation OF
missionaries is augmented by the dis
solute English, American and Scotch
merchants who go to foreign cities,
leaving their families behind them.
Those dissolute merchants in foreign
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that the pure households of the mis-
sionaries are perpetual rebuke. Buz-
yards never did believe in doves, and
if there is anything that nightshade
hates it is the water lily. What the
$50 American missionaries have suf-
fered in the Ottoman empire since 1920
1 leave the archangel to announce
on the day of Judgment. You will
see it reasonable that put so much
emphasis on Americanism in the Of
toman empire when l tell you that
America, Notwithstanding all the
disadvantages named, has now over
twenty thousand students in day
schools in that empire, and $4,000 chill
dren in her Sabbath schools, and that |
America has expended in the Turkish |
empire for it's betterment over ten mil
lion dollars. Has not America right
to be heard? Aye! it will be heard! l
am glad that great Indignation meet
ings are being held all over this coun-
try. That poor, weak, cowardly sui
tan, whom 1 saw few years ago ride
to mosque for worship, guarded by
1000 armed men, many of them
mounted on prancing chargers, will
hear of these sympathetic meetings
for the Armenians, If not through
reporters, then through some
of his 800 wives. What to do with
him? There ought to be some st.
Helena to which he could be exiled,
while the nations of Europe appoint a
ruler of their own to clean out and
take possession of the palaces of Con-
Tonight this august as
semblage in the capital of the United
States, in the name of the God of Ma
tons, indicts the Turkish government
for the wholesale assassination of Ar
and invokes the interference
Of Almighty God and the protest of
eastern and western hemispheres.
But what is the duty of the hour?
Sympathy, deep, wide, tremendous,
immediate! A religious paper, "The
Christian Herald" of New York, has
ed the way with munifcent contribu
ions collected from it's subscribers.
But the Turkish government is OPP
,osed to any relief of the Armenian
as personally know. Last
August, before l had any idea of be-
coming fellow-citizen with Wash
ngton, $4,000 for Armenian re-
ief was offered me if I would
personally take that relief to s
Armenia. My passage was to be en- !
aged on the City of Paris, but tele- ,
ram was sent to Constantinople, ask ,
ng if the Turkish government would ,
rant me protection on such an errand ,
Sh government wished to know to i
What points in Armenia 1 desired to !
o with that relief. In our reply four I
tiles were named, one of them the +
Gene of what had been the |
hief massacre. A cablegram came i
rom Constantinople saying that I
had better send the money to the :
turkish governments mi xed commits c
icn, and they would distribute it. So r
cobweb of spiders proposed a relief :
ommittee for unfortunate flies! Well, 9
man who would start up through the l
fountains of Armenia with $50, 900 and +
o government protection would be G
utility of monumental foolhardiness.
he Turk ish government has in every I
ossible way hindered Armenian re- O
EFF.
Now, where is that angel of mercy, t
lara Barton, who appeared on the t
attle-felds of Fredericksburg, Antie- O
am, Falmouth and Cedar Mountain, i,
nd under the blaze of French and Ger c
ian guns at Metz and Paris, and in Y
ohnstown floods, and Charleston b
and Michigan fires, and O
.ussian famine? 1t was comparative r
7 of little Importance that the Ger O
ian emperor decorated her with the O
ron Cross, for God hath decorated a
err in the sight of all nations @