Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1896-01-25
THE ARMENIANS.
DIR. TALMAGE'S SUNDAY THEME.
He Makes An Eloquent Appeal In Be,
half Of This Prosecuted People.

TEXT: ''They escaped into the land Of Ar
menia. III Kings xix, 81.
In Bible geography this is the first time
that Armenia appears, called then by the
tableland, 1000 feet above the level bf the
sea, and on one Of it's peaks Eoah's ark
landed, with It's human family and fauna
that were to Ali 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.
Its inhabitants, the ethnologists tell us. arr
a superior type OF the Caucasian race. Tn cir
religion is founded on the Bible. Their
Saviour fs our Christ. Their crime is that
they will not become followerso Of Mohammed.
that Jupiter OF sensuality. To drive them
from the face Of the earth is the ambition o.
all Mohammedans. To accomplish this.
murder is no crime, and wholesale mas
sacre Is & matter Of enthusiastic appro-
baton and Governmental reward.
The prayer sanctioned by highest Mohan-
mcdan authority and recited every day
throughout Turkey and Egypt. while styling
all those not Mohammedans asin1dels. Is Is
follows: so Lord Of all creatures! 0 Allah,
Destroy the infdeIs and p%olytheista, thine
enemies, the enemies Of the religion. 0
Allah, make their children orphan and 1efio
hLA'ti "a Tx It|I - Sttt'. Div
them and their families. their households
and their women. their children and their
relatives by marriage, their brOtnef- IA !
their friends, their possessions an IL" ra.h.
their wealth and their lands "a booty - far
MOslems. o Lord 81 all creatures iii" ijft
Of an Armenian in the presence Of tho-r Wap
make that prayer Is Of no more value than
the life OF a summer inse3'.
The Sultan Of Turkey sits on u throne i'm
rersonatine that brigandage and assassin
ton. At this time all civilized NATIONS are
in horror at the pts OF that MOhomme-
dan Government to destrOvall the Christians
of Armenia. | hear somebody talking as
though some new thing were happening. and
that the Turkish Government had taken a
new role OF tragedy on Che stage OF Nations.
No, no. She Is at the same old business.
Overlooking her diabolism OF other centur-
les, we come down to our century TO find
that in 1922 the Turkish Government slew
$4,000 antt-MoeiemS. and ii 1850 she slew
&c. 0G0, and in 1860 she slew 1000 and in
1876 she slew 10, 000. Anything short OF the
slaughter OF thousands Of human beings does
not put enough red wine into her cup %
abomlnation to make it worth qua fing. Nor
is this the only time she has pr omised re-
form. In the presence Of the warships at
the mouth Of the Dardanelles she has prom
tsed the civilized Nations Of the earth that
she would stop her butcheries and the inter
ttrnational and hemisphere farce has been
enacted OF believing what she says, wnen all
the past ought to persuade us that she is
only pausing in her atrocities to put Ma
tions of the track and then resume the WORK
Of death
In 1920 Turkeyin treaty with Russia prom
lsed to alleviate the condition OF Christians,
but the promise was broken. In 1899 the
then Sultan promised protection Of life and
property without reference to religion, and
the promise was broken. In 1914, at the de-
mand Of an English minister plenipotentiarv,
the Sultan declared after the public eXecu-
ton OF an Armenian at Constantinople
that no such death penalty should again be
inflicted, and the promise was bro ken. In
1850. at the demand Of foreign Nations, thu
Turkish Government promised Profession &c
Protestants, but to THIS day the Protestant:
at STEAMBOAT are not allowed to build a church
although they have the funds ready. ano
the Greek Protestants, who have a church
are not permitted to worship In it. II
1856, after the Crimean War. Turkey prom
ised that no one should he hindered IN tn,
exercise Of the religion he protested. an
that promise has been broken. In 1878. a
tho memorable treaty Of Berlin, Turke
promised religious liberty to all her subjects
in every part Of the Ottoman Empire. an,
the promise was broken. Not once in all tn
centuries has the Turkish Government KEEP
her promise OF mercy. SO far from any i'm
provenent, the condition OF the Armenian
has become worse and worse year by yeal
1uu HI lue PROMISES II 1utKlSl NfOFcII
ment now makes are only a gaining Of tim
Ivy which she is making preparation for til
complete determination Of Christianity fro1
her borders.
No wonder that he ply sicians Of that re
gion declared that among all the men an,
women that were down with wounds an
sickness and under theircare not one wante
to get we'll. Remember that nearly all tn
reports that nave cometO US or the Turks
outrageS have been manipulated and mod
fed and softened by the Turks themselvp.
Tho story is not half told. or a hundredt
part told, or a thousandth part told. Non
but God and our suffering brothers and 81
tiers ia that far-oT land know the whoies tor,
and ii will not ba known until in the corona
tions Of heaven Christ shall lift to n specii
throne OF glory these heroes anC heroine
saying, These are they who rame out
great tribuiatiou and had their robes washe
aud made white in the blood Of II
Lamb" Ny Lord and my God, Tho
,iidst on the cross suffer for them. hl
Thou. surely, q Christ. wilt not forg
how much they have suffered for Thee,
dare not deal in iinprecation. but never
much enjoyed the inprecstory songs
David as siuceI nave heard how those Turl
are treating the Armenians. The iaat /
Turkey has got t. be divided up among 81.
er Nations. or course the European Nat,rl
must take tho chief part. but Turkey ou.
10 be compelled 10 pay America fur =
American Mission buildings and America
sehoolhouse- she has destroyed aud t. su
port the wives and children Of the AGel
cans ruined by this wholesale butcher
When the English lion aud the Russian be
put their paw on tina; Turkey. the Amerlc'
eagle ought to put IN its bill.
Who are these American and English a,
Scotch missionaries who are being hound
among the mountains OF Armenia by I
Mohammedans? The nohlest men and "
men this side Of heaven. Some o. them N
who took the highest honors al Yale a
Princeton and Harvard and Oxford u
Edinburgh. Some Of them women. gen
and most Chnstlike. who, TO save peoI
they never saw, turned their backs Oh lux
rious homes to spend their days in ~self-eXE
t~riation, saying goodhy 10 father and motl
and afterward Soodby. 70 their own chilar
as circumstances compelled them to send
little ones to England. Scotland or Ansric
! have seen these foreign nissionar
in their homes all around the wor
and l stamp with indignant
upon the literary blackguardisn Of 4
eign correspondents who have deprecsI
these heroes and heroines who are willing
live and die for Christ's sake. They v
o,.a tha k,yba-, $hrorae - hosr a yr6