The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-01-22

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be taken and the testimony OF the 80
Ar.nenians rcjecUetE-in other words, the
solemn oath Of q thousand Arm2nlans
would not be strong enoush to overthrow |
the perjury Of one &tLammedan. Apro-
fessOr was conGemIol to death for trans
latinc the English Book Ct Common |
PRAYER into Turkish. Seventeen Arme- !
mans were sentenced to 10 years I'M |
prisonment Tor rescuing q Christian !
bride from the bandits.
This is the way the Turkish govern
ment amusos itself III time Of peace. |
These are the delights Of Turkish civili-
cation. But when the days Of massacre |
come, then deeds are done which may |
not be unveiled in any refined assem-
blace, aud if one speaks CT the horrors,
he must Go SO in we'll poised and eau
tioas vocabulary. Hundreds CT villages |
destroyed! Young men put IN piles OF
brushwood, which are then saturated |
with kerosene and set on fire! Mothers,
in the most solemn hour that ever comes
in woman's life, hurled ont and bay
oneted! Eyes gouged out and dead ana
diving hurled into the same pit! Ihe
slaughter of Lucknow and Cawnpur,
India, in 1857, eclipsed in ghastllness
The worst scenes CT the French revolu-
ton in Paris made more tolera5le III COL
trast In many regions Of Armenia the
only rndertakers today are the JackaIs
and hyenas. Mauy Ct the Chiefs u tho
massacres were sent straight from Con
stantinople to do their work, and having
returned were decorated by the sultan.
TO sour Of the worst murderers the sui
tcn sent silk banners, IL Gelioate cppre=
ciaticn Of their services. Five hundred
thousand Armenians put TO death or dy-
ing of starvation This moment, While
sneak. all up and down Armenia Sit
many people, freezing in the ashes OF
their destroyed homes, bereft Of mos
Of their households and awaiting the
club of assassination to put them ont OF
their misery.
sHow Long, O Lord!"
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 como to Us Of the Turkish outrages
have been manipulated and modified and
softened by the Turks themselves. The
story is not half told, or hundredth
part told, or q thoUsandth part told.
None buS God and Cur suffering broth
ers and sisters in that faroT land Enow
the whole story, and 1t will not be
known until in the cOronations OF heaV-
en- Christ shall lift to a special throne
Of glory these heroes and heroines, say
ing, ''Tbese are they who cano oat OF
great tribulati0n and had their roses
washed aud made white in the blood of
the lamb" My Lord and my God, thou
didst OF the cross suffer for them, but
thou, surely, O Christ, wilt not forget
how much they have suffered fer thee!
dare not deal in imprccation, but
never so much enjoyed the lmprecatory
songs of David IS since l have heard
how those Turks are treating the Ar-
menians The fact is, Turkey has got to
be divided Cp among ether nations. "
course tho European nations must take
the chief part, but Turkey ought to bo
compelled to pay America for tho Amer
ican mission buildings and American
schoolhouses she has destroyed and to
support the wives and children Of tie
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 rnt
IN It's bill.
Who are these American and English
and Scotch missionaries who are being
bounded among the mountains OF Ar
menia by tie Mobammedans? The no.
blest men and women this side Of heav-
en-. Some cf them men who took tho
highest horors at Yale and Princeton
and Harvard and Oxford and Edin.
burgh. Some CT them wOLncn, gentleSt
and most Christlke, 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 aud mother and afterward good
by to their own children as circum-
stances compel them to send the little
ones to England, Scotland Cr America.
I have seen these foreign missionaries
in their homes all around the world,
and / stamp with indignation upon the
literary blackguardism Of foreign CORE
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 defainers will not get near
enough to the shining gates to see the
faintest CLINT of any one of the -
pearls which make up the II 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
in foreign cities lead q life Of such gross
immorals 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 III
the Ottoman empire since 1920 I leave
the archangel to announce On the day of
| Judgment. You will see it reasonable
that put SO much emphasis Oh Ameri-
canism in the Ottoman empire when
| tell you that America, notwithstanding
all the disadvantages named, has now
over $1,000 students in day schools III
that empire and 35, ,0G0 children in her
Sabbath schools, and that America has
| expended in the Turkish empire for its
betterment over $4,000, 000. Has not
America right to be heard? Aye, it
will be heard I am glad that great in
dignation meetings are being held all
over this country. That poor, weak,
cowardly sultan, whom I saw few
years ago ride to his mosque for worship,
guarded by 1000 armed men, many of
them mounted On prancing chargers,
will hear of these sympathetic meetings
for the Armenians, if not through Amer
! irao ren0rters then through some CT