The Monitor-register., 1896-01-17

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WGIysy 3lNV prevent fever,
S&& and restore
- healthy action of
the liver and bowels. At home or abroad
Hooo.s Pllls are safeguard and friend.
Thousand Armenians put to death or dy
ing OF starvation! This moment, while
lspeak, all up and down Armenia sit
many people, freezing in the ashes of
tnelr destroyed homes, bereft of most
OF their households and awaiting the
CLUB OF assassination to put them out Of
their misery
"How Long, Lordr'
No wonder that the physicians of
that region declared that among all the
men and women that were down with
wounds and sickness and under their
care not one wanted to get well. Re-
member that nearly all the reports that
have come to us of the Turkish outrapes
have been manipulated and modified and
softened by the Turks themselves. The
story is not half told, or a hundredtb
part told, or thousandth part told.
None but God and our suffering BROTH
ers and sisters in that faroff land know
the whole story, and it will not be
known until in the coronations of beav.
ell Christ shall lift to a special throne
OF glory these heroes and heroines, saw
ing, "These are they who came out of
great tribulation and had their robes
washed and made white in the blood of
the lamb. " My Lord and my God, thou
didst on the cross suffer for them, but
thou, surely, o Christ, wilt not forget
how much they have suffered for thee
dare not deal in imprecation, but I
never SO much enjoyed the imprecatory
songs of David as since I have heard
how those Turks are treating the Ar
menians. The fact is, Turkey has got to
be divided up among other nations. Of
course the European nations must take
the chief part, but Turkey ought to be
compelled to pay America for the Amer
lean mission buildings and American
schoolhouses she has destroyed and to
support the wives and children of the
Americans ruined by this wholesale
butchery. When the English lion and
the Russian bear put their paws on that
Turkey, the American eagle ought to put
in its bill.
Who are these American and English
and Scotch missionaries who are being
bounded among the mountains of Ar
menia by the Mohammedans? The no.
blest men and women this side of heav-
EN-. Some of them men who took the
highest honors at Yale and Princeton
and Harvard and Oxford and Edin.
burgh. Some of them women, gentlest
and most Christlike, who, to save peo-
pie they never saw, turned their backs
ON luxurious homes to spend their days
IN self expatriation, saying goodby to
father and mother and afterward good
by to their own children as circum-
stances compel them to send the little
ones to England, Scotland or America.
l have seen these foreign missionaries
in their homes all around the world,
and stamp with indignation upon the
literary 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 gates to see the
faintest CLINT of any one of the 10
pearls which make up the 12 gates.
The Cowardly Sultan.
This defamation of missionaries is
augmented by the dissolute English,
American and Scotch merchants who go
to foreign cities, leaving their families
behind them. Those dissolute merchants
III foreign cities lead life of such gross
1mmorals that the pure households of
the missionaries are perpetual rebuke.
Buzzards never did believe in doves, and
| If there is anything that nightshade
hates it is the water lily. What the $50
American missionaries have suffered in
the Ottoman empire since 1920 leave
the archangel TO- announce on the day of
Judgment. You will see it reasonable
that put SO much emphasis on Ameri
| canism in the Ottoman empire when
tell you that America, Notwithstanding
all the disadvantages named, has now
over $4,000 students in day schools in
that empire and 35, 900 children in her
Sabbath schools, and that America has
expended in the Turkish empire for it's
betterment over $40, 100000 Has Lot
America a right to be heard? Aye, it
will be heard am glad that great in
dignation meetings are being held all
over this country. That poor, weak.
towardly sultan, whom l saw a few
years ago ride to his mosque for worship,
guarded by 1000 armed men, many of
them mounted OH prancing chargers,
will hear of these sympathetic meetings
for the Armenians, il not through Amer
ican reporters, then through some of
his $50 wives. What to do with him?
There ought to be some st. Helena to
which he could be exiled while the ma
tions of Europe appoint a ruler of their
own to clean out AMI take possession of
the palaces Of Ccnstantinople. Tonight
this august assemblage in the capital Of
the United States, in the name of the
God Of nations, indicts the Turkish gov
ernment for the wholesale assassination
IN Armenia and invokes the interfer
ence of Almighty God and the protest of
eastern and western hemispheres.
A Cobweb of Spiders.
But what is the duty of the hour?
Sympathy, deep, wide, tremendous, i'm
mediatel A religious paper, The Chris
tian Herald of New York, has led the
way with munificent contributions col
lected from its subscribers. But the
Turkish government is opposed to any
relief of the Armenian sufferers, as
personally know. Last August, before l
had any idea of becoming fellow citi-
zen with you Washingtonians, $50, 900
for Armenian relief was offered me if I
would personally take that relief to
Armenia. My passage was to be engaged
on the City of Paris, but a telegram was
sent to Constantinople asking if the
Turkish government would grant me
protection on such an errand of mercy.
A cablegram said the Turkish govern
ment wished to know to what points in
Armenia | desired to go with that re-
lief In our reply four cities were nam
ed, one of them the scene of what had
been the chief massacre. A cablegram
came from Constantinople saying that l
had better send the money to the Turk
ish government mixed commission,
and they would distribute it. So a cob
web of spiders proposed relief COM
mittee for unfortunate flies. Well, d
man who would start up through the
mountains of Armenia with $780,
and no governmental protection would
be guilty of monumental foolhardiness.
The Turkish government has in every
possible way hindered Armenian relief
An Angel of Mercy.