Milford chronicle., 1896-01-17

that the physicians Of that region declares
that among all the men and women tina
I were down with wounds and sickness ant
/ under their care not one wanted to 90
we'll. Remember that nearly all the re
ports that have come TO MS Of the Turkisl
outrages have been manipulated and modi
! fed and softenod by the Turks themselves
The story is not half told, or q hundredtl
part told, OF a thousandth part told
None but Gud and our suffering brother
and sisters in that farof land know tn,
whole story, and it will not be known un
til, in the coronations Of heaven, Chris
shall lift to a special throne of glory thes,
heroes and heroines, saying, "Theso ar,
they who came out of great tribulatioT
and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood of tho lamb" My
Lord and my God, thou didst ON tho eros.
suffer for them, but thou surely, o Christ
wilt not forget how much they have suf
fered for theei l dare not deal in impre
cation but 1 never so much enjoyed the
impreoatory songs of David as since have
heard how those Turks are treating the
Armenians. 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 Ameri-
can mission buildings and American
schoolhouses she has destroyed and to sup
port the wives and children Of the Ameri-
cans ruined by this wholesale butchory.
When the English lion and the Russian
boar put their paws on that Turkey, the
American eagle ought to put in its bill.
Missionary Heroes.
Who are these American and English
and Scotch missionaries who are being
bounded among the mountains Of Ar
menia by the Mohammedans? The noblest
men and women this side of heaven,
some of them men who took tho highest
honors at Yale and Princeton and Harvard
and oxford and Edinburgh; some of
those women, gentlest and most Christ
like who, to save people they never saw,
turned their backs on luxurious homes to
spend their days in self repatriation, say
ing goodby to father and mother and af-
terward goodby to their own children, as
circumstances compel them to send the lit
tie ones to England, Scotland or America.
I have seen these foreign missionaries in
their homes all around the world, and I
stamp with Indignation upon the literary
blackguardism Of foreign correspondents
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 de-
famars will not get near enough to the
shining gates to see the faintest CLINT of
any Que of the 10 pearls which make up
the 10 gates.
This defamation Of missionaries is aug
mented by the dissolute English American
and Scotch merchants who go to foreign
cities, leaving their families behind them
rhnse dissoluto merchants in foreign cities
lead lifo Of such gross minerals that tho
pure households of the missionaries are q
perpetual rebuke BuZzalds never did be-
liove in doves, and il there is anything
that nightshade hates it is the water lily
What the $50 American missionaries have
suffered in the Ottoman empire since 1890
I leave the archangCl to announce on the
day Of Judgment. You will see it reason
able that l put SO much emphasis on
in the Ottoman empire when
1 tell you that America, Notwithstanding
all the disadvantages named, has now over
81 ,00O students in day schools in that en-
pire and 35 600 children III her Sabbath
schools, and that America has expended
in the Turkish empire for its betterment
over $40, COO 600. Has not America right
to be heard? Ayel 1t will be heard I
am glad that great Indignation meetings
are being held all over this country. That
poor, weak, cowardly sultan, whom 1 saw
q few years ago ride to lis mosque for
worship, guarded by 1000 armed men,
many of them mounted on pranoing
chargers, will hear of these sympathetic
for the Armenians, if not through
American 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 /
1lean out and take possession of the pal
aces Of ConstantinOple. Tonight this au-
gust assemblage in the capital of the Unit |
ID States, in the name of the God of ma !
ions, indicts tho Turkish government for I
3he wholesale assassination in Armenia
md invokes the interference of Almighty 4
God and theprotest Of eastern and western I
lemispheres.
Duty of the Hour.
But what is the duty of the hour? .
Sympathy, deep, wide, tremendous, i'm .
a religious paper, The Chris
ian Herald Of New York, has led the
way with munificent contributions col
ectod from subscribers. But the Turkish
government is opposed to any relief of the
Armenian sufferers as personally know.
last August, before I had any idea of he
coming a fellow citizen with you Wash
ngtonians $50 600 for Armenian relief
vas offered me if I would personally take
hat relief to Armenia. My passage was
o be engaged on the City Of Paris, but
elegram was sent to Constantinople, ask
ng if tho Turkish government would
rant me protection on such an errand Of
mercy A cablogram said the Turkish
wished to know to what
oints in Armenia 1 desired to 90 with
hat relief. In our reply four cities were
famed, one of them this scene Of what had
cen the chief massacre. A cablegram
anne from Constantinople saying that
ad better send the money to the Turkish
mixed commission, and they
Tould distribute it. So cobweb Of spi-
ers proposed relief committee for uufOr-
innate flies Well, a man who would
tart up through the mountains Of Ar
lsnia with $50 600 and no governmental
would be guilty of monumental
The Turkish government has in every
ossiblo way hindered Armenian relief
low where is that angel of moTuy, Clara
barton, who appeared on the battlefiolds
{ Fredericksburg, Antietam, Falmouth
nd Cedar Mountain, and under the blaze
f French aud German guns at Motz and
aris and in Johnstown floods, and
harloston earthquake, and Michigan
res, and Russian famine2 1t was COM
aratiyely of little Importance that the
nrman emperor decorated her with tho
ron Cross, for God hath decorated her in
be- sight Of all nations with a glory that
either time nor eternity can dim. Born
a Massachusetts, village, she came in
er girlhood to this city to serve our gov
,nment in the patent Office, but afterward
ont forth from the doors of that patent
aice with a divine patent, signed and
,aled by God himself to heal all the
ounds she could touch and make the
errors Of the flood and fro and plague
nd hospital fly her presence God bless
lara Bartonl Just as 1 expected, she
IT'S the banner CT the Red Cross.
The Red Cross Of sIcrey.
Turkey and an nations ara pledged to
tspect and defend that Rcd Cross, al
rough that color Of cross docs not, in the
Union OF many stand fer Christianity. I
] my opinion it does stand for Christian
y, for was not the cross pndor which