The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-17

time that Armenia appears, called then
by the same name as now. Armenia
Is chiefly a table-land, seven thousand
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 fer
tilted 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, are superior
type of the Caucasian race. Their re-
laigion is founded on the Bible. Their
Saviour Is our Christ. Their crime is
that they would not become followers
of Mahomet, that Jupiter of sensuality.
To drive them from the face OF the
earth Is the ambition of the Mohamme-
dams. To accomplish this, murder is
no crime, and wholesale massacre Is
matter of enthusiastic appreciation and
governmental reward. The prayer sane
toned by highest Mohammedan au-
thority, and recited every day through
out Turkey and Egypt, while styling
all those not Mohammedans as infidels,
is as follows: 80 Lord of all creatures?
0 Allah! Destroy the Infidels and Poly
theists, thine enemies, the enemies or
the religion! o Allah! Make their
children orphans and defile their
bodies; cause their feet to slip; give
them and their families, their house.
holds and their women, their children,
and their relatives by marriage, their
brothers and their friends, their pos
sessions and the race, their wealth and
their lands as booty to the Moslems, 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. The
Sultan of Turkey sits on throne I'M
personating that brigandage and as
sassination. At this time all civilized
nations are in horror at the attempts
of that Mohammedan government to
destroy 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 centuries, we come down to our
century to find that in 1922 the Turkish
government slew $4,000 anti Moslems,
and in 1850 she slew 10000, and in 1860
she slew 1000, and in 1876 she slew
10000. 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 quafling.
Nor is this the only time she has prom
Used reform. In the presence of the
warships at the mouth OF the Darda-
nelles, she has promised the civilized
nations Of the earth that she would
stop her butcheries, and the interna-
tional 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 atroci-
ties TO put nations off the track and
then resume the work CT death. In 1920
Turkey, in treaty with Russia
promised to alleviate the condition of
In 1889 the then Sultan promised pro-
lection of life and property without
reference to religion, and the promise
was broken. In 1914, at the demand of
an English minister p!enipotentiary,
the Sultan declared, after the public
execution of an Armenian at Constan-
tnople, that no such death penalty
should again be inflicted, and the
promise was broken. In 1850, at the
demand of foreign nations, the Turk
ish government promised protection to
Professionals, but to this day the Pro-
testants at STEAMBOAT are not allowed to
build a church, although they have the
funds ready, and the Greek Professionals,
who have church, arc not permitted
to worship in it, In 1856, after the
Crimean war, Turkey promised that no
one should be hindered in the exercise
of the religion he professed, and that
promise has been broken. In 1873, at
the memorable treaty of Berlin, Turkey
pomised religious liberty to all her
subjects in every part of the Ottoman
empire, and the promise was broken.
Not once in all the centuries has the
Turkish government kept her promise
of mercy. So far from any improve
ment, the condition Of the Armenians
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 making
for the complete extermi-
nation OF Christianity from her borders.
Why, after all the national and con-
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
up, sink Mohammedanism Be-
tween these outbreaks OF massacre the
suffer in silence wrongs that
are seldom II ever reported. They are