News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-01-16
ARMENIAN HORRORS.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE TELLS THE STORY
OF MOHAMMEDAN CRUELTY.

WASHINGTON, Jan. -. 1t was apprO-
pirate that in the presence of the chief
men Of this nation and other nations
DR.. Talmage should tell the story of Ar
menian massacre. What viii he the ex-
tent for good of such a discourse none
can tell The text was II Kings xix,
81, They escaped into the land Of Ar
menia.
In Bible geography this is the first
time that Armenia appears, called then
by the same name as now. Armenia is
chiefly Il lakeland, 1000 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 fortified the garden
Of Eden when Adam and Eve lived
there, their only roof the crystal skies
and their carpet the emerald Of rich
grass. It's inhabitants, the ethnologists
tell us, are superior type Of the eau
Casian race. Their religion is founded
on the Bible Their Saviour is our
Christ. Their crime is that they will not
become followers OF Mohammed, that Ju-
piter Of sensuality. TIE drive them from
the face Of the earth is the ambition Of
all Mohammedans. To accomplish this,
murder is no crime, and wholesale mas
sacre is a matter Of enthusiastic appro-
baton and governmental reward.
The prayer sanctioned by highest Mo-
hamm cdan authority and recited every
day throughout Turkey and Egypt
while styling all those not Mohamme-
dams as infdels, is as follows: go Lord
of all creatures O Allah Destroy the
infdels and polytheists, thine enemies,
the enemies of the religion. o Allah,
make their children orphans and defilo
their bodies, cause their feet to slip,
give them and their families, their
households and their women, their chill
dreif and their relatives by marriage,
their brothers and their friends, their
possessions and the race, their wealth
and their lands as booty to the Mos
lens, 0 Lord Of all creaturCsn' The
life Of an Armenian in the presence of
those who make that prayer is Of no
more value than the life Of summer
insect.
Statistics Of Slaughter.
The sultan Of Turkey sits OH q throne
impersonating that brigandage and as
sassinati0n. At this time all civilized
nations are i'll horror at the attempts Of
that MohammedGn government to 10.
etroy all the Christians Of Armenia. I
hear somebody talking as though some
new thing were happening, and that the
Turkish government had taken q new
role of tragedy on the stage Of nations.
No, no! She is at the same old business.
Overlooking her diab0lism Of other cen
turtles, we come down to our century
to find that in 1922 the Turkish gov
eminent Slew go 900 anti Moslems, and
in 1850 she slew 10000, and in 1860
she slew II, 600 and in 1876 she slew
1000 Anything short Of the slaughter
of thousands Of human beings does not
put enough red wine into her cup CT
abominatiOn to make it worth quafIing.
Nor is this the only time she has prom
ised reform. In the presence of the war
ships at the mouth of the Dardanclles
she has promised the civilized nations
of the earth that she would stop her
butCheries and the International and
hemisphere farce has been enacted Of
believing what she says, when all the
past ought to persuade US that she is
only pausing III her atrocities to put ma
tons off the track and then resume the
work of death.
IN 1920 Turkey i'll treaty with Russia
promised to alleviate the condition Of
Christians, bat the promise was broken.
In 1889 the then sultan promised pro
lection OF life and property without ref
erence to religion, and the promise was
broken. In 1874, at the demand Of an
English minister plenipoteDtiary, the
sultan declared after the public ezecu.
ton Of an Armenian at COnstantinople
that no such death penalty should again
be inflicted, and the promise was broken.
In 1850, at tho demand Of foreign IA
tions, the Turkish government promised
protection to Protestants, but TO this
day the PrOtestants at STEAMBOAT are not
allowed to build a church, although
theys have the funds ready, and the
Greek Protestants, who have a church,
are 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 pro-
fessed and that promise has been broken.
IN 1878, at the memorable treaty Of
Berlin, Turkey promised religious lib,
erty to all her subjects in every part CT
the Ottoman empire, and the promise
was broken. Not once in all the cen
turtles has the Turkish government kept
her promise of mercy. So far from any
improvement, the condition Of the Ar
menians has become worse and worse
year by year, and all the promises the
Turkish government now makes are only
a gaining of time by which she is max
ing preparation for the complete exter-
mination of Christianity from her Dor
ders.
The Nuisance of the Ages.
Why after all the national and con-
tinental 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 accused govern
ment to atoms? In the name Of tie
eternal God, let the nuisance Of the
ages be wiped off the face Of the earth f!
Down to the perdition from which it
smoked up sink Northumberland Be-