The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1896-01-13

MIA by the Mohammedans? The noblest
men and women tails side or heaven. some
of them, men who took the highest nom
ors at Yale and Princeton and Harvard
and oxford and Edinburgh. Some OF them
women, gentlest and most Christilke, VINO,
to people they never saw, turheu
their backs on luxurious homes 10 spenu
their days I'm self-expatriation, SAVING
goodby to father and mother. and after
ward goodby to their own children, as
circumstances compel them to send the
little ones to England, Scotland or Amer
lea. | have seen these foreign missionaries
I'm their homes all around the world, ana
stamp with Indignation upon the literary
lackguardism of foreign correspondents
who have deprecated these heroes ana ne
roRes who are willing to live and die Tor
Christs sake. They will have the highest
thrones in heaven. while their deiamers VIII
not get near enough TO the shining gates
to see the faintest CLINT of any one OF the
twelve pearls which make up the twelve
gates This defamation of missionaries 10
augmented by the dssolute English, Amer
lean and Scotch merchants who so TO Tor
eign cities, leaving their families behind
them. Those dissolute merchants in for
eign cities lead life of such gross i'm
morality that the pure households of the
missionaries are perpetual rebuke. Buz.
yards never did believe in doves, and II
there is anything that nightshade hates
il is the water lily. What the $50 American
missionaries have suffered in the QUO
man empire since 1870 leave the archanSel
to announce on the day of judgment You
VIII see it reasonable that put so much
emphasis on Americanism in the Ottoman
empire when l tell you that America, not
withstaUding all the disadvantages named,
has now over q, 900 students in day schools
in that empire and $4,000 children in her
sabbath schools. and that America has ex-
pended in the Turkish empire for its better
ment over $40 1000. Has not America n
right to be heard? Aye 1t will be heard!
/ am glad that great Indignation meetings
are being held all over this country. That
poor, weak, cOwardly sultan, whom | saw
a few years ago ride to his mosque for
worship guarded by 1,000 armed men, many
Of them mounted on prancing chargers,
will hear of these sympathetic meetings for
the Armenians, if not through American
reporters, then through some of his 800
wives.
But what is the duty Of the hour SYM
pathy deep wide, tremendous, immediate!
4 religious paper, The Christian Herald.
OF New York. has led the way Nith large
contributions collected from its subscribers.
But the Turkish government Is opposed 10
any relief of the Armenian sufferers, as l
personally know. Last August before l
had any idea OF becoming fellow citizen
with YOU observation-disclosures, $4,000 for Arme-
Man relief was offered me if 1 would per
sonally take that relief to Armenia. My
passage was to be engaged on the city OF
Paris but telegram was sent 10 COnstdn-
tinopie asking if the Turkish government
would grant me protection on sucn ar tr-
rand Of mercy. A cablegram SAID the Iufk-
ish government wished to know to what
points in Armenia / desired to 20 with that
relief. In our reply four cities were named,
one OF them the scene Of what had been the
chief massacre. a cablegram came from
Constan tinopie saying that ! had better
mcnt's mixed commission and they would
distribute it. So "a cObweb of spiders pro-
posed "A relief committee for unfortunate
niCSt Wen, a man VINO would start up
through the mountains of Armenia with
$4,000 and no governmental protection
would be guilty of monumental foolhardi-
ness. The Turkish government has in ev-
cry possible way hinderCd Armenian relief.
NOW whore is that angel Of mercy, Clara
Barton, who appeared ON the battleiieids OF
Fredericksburg, Antietam, Falmouth ana
Cedar Mountain, and under the blaze ot
French ana German guns at Metz and
Paris. and IN JohnstOwn Hood and Charles
ton earthquake, ana Michigan hreS and
Russian famine? IL was comparatively of
little Importance that the German emperor
decorated her with the Iron Cross. FOR God
hath decorated her i'm the sight of all ma
tioas with a glory that neither time nor
eternity can dim. Born i'm a Massachusetts
village, she came in her Eirlhood 70 TINS
city To serve our government in the pat MT
Office, but afcerward went forth from the
doors of tbat patent office with a divine
patent signed and sealed by God himself,
to heal all the wounds she could touch,
and make the horrors of the flood. ana tire,
and plague, and hospital fly ner presence.
God bless Clara Barton Just as expect
Ell, she lifts the banner of the Red Cross.
Turkey and all nations are pledged TO re-
spect and defend that Red Gross, although
that color of cross does not, i'm the opinion
of many, stand FOR Christianity In nay
opinion IL does stand for Christianity. for
was not the cross under which most of us
worship red with the blood of the Son OF
God, red with the best blood that was ever
SNtd, req with the blood poured
out for the ransom of the world?
Then lead ou, Q ltcu CROSS ahd let CARA
Barton carry il! The Turkish govern
mcut IS bound 10 protect her
lt has been said that If We 20 over there
TO interfere on another continent that viii
imply the right for other nations 70 inter-
icrc with AFFAIRS on this continent, and SD
the Monroe aoctrlEc IS JeOpardl1td. 40,
no. President CiCVttaud expressed the
sentiment of every Intelligent aud patriot
&c American when he numbered from tine
white house a warning 10 all nations, that
there is not one acre or one inch more Of
ground on this continent for any trans
Atlantic government To occupy. And 10y
that doctrine we stand now and shall tor
ever stand. But there rs a doctrine ms
much higher than the Monroe doctrine as
the heavens are hiGher tnan the e,trlh, ana
that is the doctrine OF huma nitHrl1ltSu
ana sympathy and Christian heipfulleSs
when one cold december midnight with
loud ana mulutudnous chant, awakened
the shepherds. Wherever there Is a
wound il IS our duty, whether AS inIlNlu-
uals or as nations 10 balsam 1t. Mner-
ever there is "a knife OF assassination uft-
ed il is our duty 70 ward OFF the blade.
Wherever men are prosecuted Tor Their re
Hgion it is our duty TO break that arm of
power. whether il be thrust forth from
Protestant church or Catholic catheot-
raj or a jewish synagogue or a mosque OF
Islam. We all recognize the right on
small scale. IL going down the road, We
find rElfian maltreAtluE child, or a hu-
man brute insulting a woman, we take
hand in the contest il We are not towards,
and though We be slight in personal pres
cuce because of our indignation We come
20 weigh about twenty tons, and the hard
cr We punish the villain the louder our
conscience apllauds us. In such case we
do not keep our hands in our pockets, ar
guiug that if We interfere with tae brute
the brute might think he would have a
right TO interfere with US, and 50 Jeopar-
dlle the Monroe doctrine. The fact rs
that the persecution Of the Armeriaus
By the Turks must bc stopped, or Cod Al
mighty will curse all Christcrdom for lis
damnable Indifference and apathy. But
the trumpet OF resurrection Is about TO
sound for Armenia. Did / say in opening
that on one OF the peaks of Armenia
this very Armenia Of which we Spyak-ln
Noah's time the ark landed, according TO
the myth, as some think, but according 10
Gods ''Say-so. as ! know, and that IL was
after a long storm of forty days aud forty
nights called the deluge. and that after
ward a dove went forth from that ark and
returned with an olive leaf in her beak?
Even so now, there is another ark being
launched but this one goes sailing, not
over a delugc of water, but a deiuge Of
hlood-the ark OF American symp0 thy
and that ark landing in Ararat, from its
window shall fly the dove Of kindness and
peace to nnd the olive leaf OF .cturning
prosperity, while all the mountains of
AIoslem prejudice, oppression and cruelty
shall stand fifteen Cubits under. Mean
while. We would like to gather all the dy
ing grOanS of all the 511.Up victims al Mo-
hammedan oppression, and intone them in
10 one prayer that would move the earth
and the heavens, hundreds of millions Of
Christian voices, American and European,