The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-17
THE BLOODY TURK.
DR.. Talmage On tia Late Atrocities
in Armenia
The Cnchristian Ruler OF Vicious People
Sividly Portrayed-The Civilized
World Looks Calmly on scenes
of shocking Barbarlsm


at Washington by Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
mage was the late Armenian outrages.
and the text was from IL Kings
xix:37: They escaped into the land
of Armenia" DR.. Talmage said:
In Bible geography this is the first
time that Armenia appears, called
then by the same name as now. Ar
menia is chiefly a tableland. 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 religion 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 ethnolog lists
tell US, are superior type of the Cau-
casian race. Their religion is founded
on the Bible. Their Saviour is our
Christ. Their crime is that they will
not become followers of Mahomet, that
Jupiter of sensuality. To drive them
from the face of the earth is the am
bition of all Mohammedans. To ac-
complish this, murder is no crime, and
wholesale massacre is a matter of en-
thusiastic appreciation and govern
mental reward. The prayer sanctioned
by highest Mohammedan authority,
and recited every day throughout Tur-
key and Egypt, while styling all those
Mohammedans as infidels, is as follows:
20 Lord of all creatures! o Allah
Destroy the intdels and polytheists,
thine enemies, the enemies of thy re-
ligion! o Allah. Make their children
orphans and de6le their bodies; cause
their feet to slip; give them and their
families, their households and their
women, their children, and their rela-
tives by marriage, their brothers and
their friends, their possessions 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 pres
ance of those who make that prayer is
Of no more value than the life of a
summer insect. The sultan of Turkey
sits on a throne Impersonating that
brigandage and assassination. At this
time all civilized nations are in horror
at the attempts of that Mohammedan
government to destroy all the Chris
tians 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 CEN
fury to find that in ls22 the Turkish
government slew 80, 900 anti Moslems,
and in 1850 she slew 10000. and in 1860
she slew 1000, and in 1876 she slew
| ZOO. Anything short of the slaugh-
ter of thousands of human beings does
not put enough red wine into her cup
/ Of abominatiOn to make it worth
quaffing. Nor is this the only time she
/ has promised reform. In the presence
/ of the warships at the mouth of the
| Dardanelles she has promised the civ
ilized nations of the earth that she
would stop her butcheries. and the in
| ternational and hemisphere farce has
! been enacted of believing what she says,
when all the past ought to persuade US
that she is only pausiug in her atroci-
ties 10 put nations off the track and
then resume the work of death. In
1920 Turkey, in treaty with Russia,
promised to alleviate the condition of
Christians, but the promise was broken
In 1889 the then sultan promised pro-
lection of life and property without
reference to religion, and the promise
was broken. In 1874, at the demand of
an English minister plenipotentiary,
the sultan declared, after the public
execution of an Armenian at Constan-
| tinople, that no sucn death penalty
should again be inflicted, and the
promise was broken. In 1850. at the
demand of foreign nations, the Turkish
government promised protection to
Protestants, but to this day the Prot
estants at STAN boul are not allowed
TO build a church, although they
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 him
dered in the exercise of the religion
he professed, and that promise has
been broken. In 1875, at the memora-
BILE treaty OF Berlin, Turkey promised
religious liberty TO all of her subjects
in every part of the Ottoman empire,
and the promise was broken Not
once in all the centuries has the Turk
ish government kept her promise of
mercy. So far from any improvement,
the condition of the Armenians has be-
come worse and worse year by year,
and all the promises the Turkish gov
ernmene now makes are only a gain
ing of time by which she is making
preparation for the complete exter-
mination of Christianity from her bor-
derS
Why, after all the national and con-
tinenal 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 CONSTANT
nople and blow that accursed govern
ment TO atoms? In the name of the
Eternal God, let the nuisance of the
ages be wiped of the face of the earth!
Down to the perdition from which it
smoked up, sink Mohammedanism!
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