The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-14
SWAY OF THE RED SClMlTAR.
ARMENTANS BEFORE THE CHRIS
TIAN ENDEAVORERS.

ience-EvanEeIi-t Mills AssaiIs
the Governments of Europe. Eng
land and the United states for
Their Failure 10 Interfere to Pre-
vent the Massacres.
Washington, July 13-The last dav's
! session OF the Fifteenth International
| Christian Endeavor convention began to-
| day at the appointed hour in the three
/ white tents simultaneously after the
usual sunrise prayer meetings. President
| Clark, Treasurer Shaw and Trustee Way
/ land presiding. Il was day reserved for
missions. Addresses were made In Tents
| W.lliston and Endeavor by the foreign
/ delegates, india, China. Africa, Asia Eng
/ land and countries Of continental Europe
| being represented. Among other mis-
| sionaries Messrs. Coll OF Africa. Putnam
| OF India. Bentley Of China and Hildner OF
| Germany spoke.
The chief interest OF the day centered
in the Armenian demonstration in Tent
Washington. An Armenian relief COM
mittee has been at work all the week
stirring up enthusiasm among the dele
gates. Special Armenian relief flags and
| badges have been spread over the city
/ and they appear everywhere in the deco
/ rations in the street cars and in the head
| dress and lapels OF the delegates. Three
| Armenian missionaries are here. one be-
| ing Secretary Greene of the national relief
! committee, and the others being women,
| Margaret W. LEIGH OF Ceylon and Rebecca
| k!rkoran of Turkey, just returned from
/ the scene of the atrocities. These three
| spoke to an immense crowd of sympa-
| thlzing endeavorers to-day in Tent Wash
| ington
The appearance of Miss Kirkorian in
! Armenian costume, her sad face and her
| broken and pathetic story Of her peoples
| woes, moved the great audience to fire.
! quent and audible expressions of sympa-
| thy and sorrow. Her father, a venerable
| Protestant pastor in Armenia, has just
| been released from a Turkish prison. Two
! Of her brothers are still suffering i'm
| prisonment, yet she spoke with remark
| able torbearance of her prosecutors She
| did not ask for the determination Of the
| Turks. LAS Christians" said she, eve
| believe I'm God and His power and prom
| ises concerning the kingdom Of heaven,
/ and so we wait and hope for religious
| harvest among the Turks. On, we do
| not want them to die in their sins, but
we desire to see them united with US
! in the same salvation and become pos
| SCISSORS of eternal life. II you think that
| the Moslem people are doomed to eternal
| condemnation, you are greatly mistaken.
| We Armenians, their afflicted victims, do
| not think so, do not desire so, do not
| believe SO. No; the MOhammedans must
| and shall be saved. When and how?
| You are to give the answer to this i'm
portant question. II Is in your hands to
keep or shut out the light of truth from
| among them. Do you not want to save
| those millions of Wretched, pershing
| souls? The Armenians have suffered and
| are crushed but, thanks be to God the
| door of His kingdom is open to the Turks.
! Oh, churches of Christendom, do try to
| keep that door open. If you are to close
| 1t, il may remain closed for centuries. II
\ this opportunity Is lost, 1t would seem as
1 To-
| died for their Savior have suffered and
| died in vain"
| After her appeal she was again present
/ ed to the audience while Miss Leithh, her
| fellow-worker, wrapped her iE the folds
| of an American flag and called upon
| Americans everywhere to see that the
| protection of this government was extend
/ ed to her people. This incident brought
| cheer after cheer from the audience
Evangelist Mills took up the appeal and
/ in a passionate harangue assailed the
| government Of Europe, England and the
United States for their indifference to-
ward the Armenian slaughter. He said he
| wished to voice the inarticulate cry Of an
| afflicted people, who for 400 years had been
suffering unspeakable, insufferable perse-
| cutions. He recited in rapid succession
| incident after incident of the Turkish cru
| elites. What have the nations done to
| check these atrocities? Absolutely moth
| ing" he cried, except to assure the Turk
that he might do as he pleased" He
chastity, bravery and nobility of their
| women. He declared that of the 1000 Ar
menian women in America no one had
| ever been brought before a court charged
with crime. Not one Armenian name had
| ever been entered on the lists of American
| charitable societies. They were the great
| people of Turkey, he said, and when Turk
wanted a son whom he could respect he
| stole an Armenian woman to be his moth
| er. at is said" he exclaimed, '''that the
sultan is himself the son Of such a Chris
tian mother"
He called attention to the bIgotrv Of
the Turk, and showed that it led him to
| the extremity of cruelty in his treatment
| of the "infidels." He read a sample pray
| er of Moslemism, in which Allah was
| called upon to utterly destroy the infidel
and all his relations and property, in or
| der to give them into the power of the
| Moslem. What wonder is IT," he cried
| that the pious Turk, after centuries of
| repetition Of this prayer should attempt
] to please his god by determination Of the
| ArmenianSY
He described the brilliancy and cunning
of the sultan showing him to be a man
of great ability and then said: Il have
no doubt that these massacres in Ar
| menia were planned and carried out by
the sultan for his own purpose"
Mr.. Mills laid the blame for the atroci-
ties at the doors Of the Christian nations
He declared that England stood perjured
to-day before God and the nations for her
failure to prevent them. England" said
to protect the Turkish Christians, has
broken her vows and the blood of those
who died in Armenia is upon her hands.
| Great cheeering)
He showed also that responsibility
rested upon the government of the Uni
ted States. She has more direct cause
than England to interfere. Yet she had
scarcely asked for an apology. NAY, her
minister has even warned the American
missionaries TO get out Of Turkey as he
should not be able to protect them.
(IIisses). How glorious was their an
swer 10 our faltering minister: We will
stay here and die with our people," Gap
plause and hisses).
He then explained how the British am
bassador had extended his protection to
the missionaries so that they were al
lowed to continue their work unmolested.
THAT was the only reason that they
were not slaughtered" ne said HAD
our noble President, on one Of his fishing
excursions, wandered into the Turkish
domain and had so much as a tiny little
bullet from a Turks play pistol passed
through his SAIL ] take II Americans
would have found that IL was some Of
our business to interfere In Turkish az
fairs. Great applause and laughter). Il
charge the government Of the United
States with misinterpretation Of the en-