Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-01-17

ARMENIAN HORRORS.
REV. DR.. TkLMAGE TELLS THE STORY
OF MOHAMMEDAN CRUELTY.
An Eloquent and Fervid Appeal - The
Cowardly Sultan Excoriated-Has Amer
lea the Right to BE Heard?-Clara Bar
ton and the Red Cross.

lea the Right to BE Heard?-Clara Bar
ton and the Red Cross.
WASHINGTON, Jan. u. 1t was apprO-
pirate that in the presence Of the chief
men of this nation and other nations
DR.. Talmage should tell the story Of Ar
menian massacre What will be the ex-
tent for good Of such a discourse none
can tell The text was II Kings xix,
81, "They escaped into the land Of Ar
menia "
In Bible geography this is the first
time that Armenia appears, called then
by the same name as now. Armenia is
chiefly IA tableland, 1000 feet above the
level of the sea, and on one Of its peaks
Noah's ark landed, with its human
family and fauna that were to fill the
earth. That region was the birthplace
Of the rivers which fortified the garden
of Eden when Adam and Eve lived
there, their only roof the crystal skies
and their carpet the emerald Of rich
grass. It's inhabitants, the ethnOlogists
tell us, are a superior type Of the eau
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 from
the face Of the earth is the ambition Of
all Mohammedans. To accomplish this,
murder is no crime, and wholesale mas
sacre is a matter Of enthusiastic appro-
baton aud governmental reward.
The prayer sanctioned by highest Mo
hammedan authority and recited every
day throughout Turkey and Egypt,
while styling all those not Mohamme-
dams as infdels, is as follows: 80 Lord
Of all creatures o Allah Destroy the
inidels and polytheists, thine enemies,
the enemies Of the religion. o Allah,
make their children orphans and deile
their bodies, cause their feet to Sip,
give them and their families, their
households and their women, their chill
dren aud 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 creatures ~ The
life Of an Armenian in the presence Of
those who make that prayer is Of no
more value than the life Of a summer
insect.
Statistics Of Slaughter.
The sultan Of Turkey sits on throne
impersonating that brigandage and as
sassination. At this time all civilized
nations are in horror at the attempts Of
that Mohammedan government to de-
stroy all the Christians Of Armenia. l
hear somebody talking as though some
new thing were happening, and that the
Turkish government had taken a new
role Of tragedy on the stage Of nations.
No, no She is at the same old business.
Overlooking her diabolism Of other CEN
turies, we come down to our century
TO find that in 1922 the Turkish gov
ernment slew 80, 900 anti-Moslems, and
in 1850 she slew 0000, and in 1860
she slew II, 900 and in 1876 she slew
10, 900. Anything short Of the slaughter
Of thousands of human beings does not
put enough red wine into her cup Of
abomination to make it worth quatfing.
Nor is this the only time she has prom
ised reform In the presence Of the war
ships at the mouth Of the Dardanelles
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 ought to persuade US that she is
only pausing in her atrocities to put ma
tions off the track and then resume the
work Of death.
In 1920 Turkey in treaty with Russia
promised to alleviate the condition Of
Christians, but the promise was broken.
In 1889 the then sultan 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-
tion 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 ma
tions, the Turkish government promised
protection to Protestants, but TO this
day the Protestants at Stamboul are not
allowed to build a church, although
they have the funds ready, and the
Greek Protestants, who have a church,
are not permitted to worship in it. In
1856, after the CTimean 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 in 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
year by year, and all the promises the
Turkish government now makes are only
gaining Of time by which she is max
ing preparation for the complete exter-
mination Of Christianity from her bor-
ders.
Tho Nuisance OF the Ages.
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 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 it
smoked up sink Mohammedanism Be-
tween these outbreaks Of massacre the
Armenians 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 "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
to the assessor, lest he report the value
Of their property too highly. Their owl
sence in court is Of no worth, and II on