Connecticut western news., 1896-01-16

India, In 1897, ecllpsed In ghastllness! The worst scenes of the French revolu- tion in Paris made more tolerable in con- trast In many regions of Armenia the only nnd.rtakers today are the jackals and hyenas. Many of the chiefs of the massacres were sent straight from Con- stantinople to do their work, and having returned were decorated by the sultan. To four of the worst murderers the sul- tan sent silk banners, in delicate appre- citation of their services. Five hundred thousand Armenians put to death or dy ing of starvationl This moment, while I speak, all up and down Armenia sit many people, freezing in the ashes of their destroyed homes, hereft of most of their households and awaiting the club of assassination to put them out Of their misery.
 "How Long. 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 come 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 a thousandth part told. None but God and our suffering broth CTS and sisters in that faroff land know the whole story, and it will not be known until in the coronations of heav- en Christ shall lift to special throne of glory these heroes and heroines, say ing, "These are they who came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the lamb" My Lord and my God, thou didst on the cross suffer for them, but thou, surely, O Christ, wilt not forget how much they have suffered for thee I dare not deal in imprecation, but never so much enjoyed the imprecatory songs of David as since have heard how those Turks are treating the Ar menians. The fact is, Turkey has got to be divided up among other nations. Of, course the European nations must take the chief part, but Turkey ought to be compelled to pay America for the Amer ican mission buildings and American schoolhouses she has destroyed and to support the wives and children of the 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 put in its bill
 Who are these American and English and Scotch missionaries who are being bounded among the mountains of Ar menia by the Mohammedans? The no blest men and women this side of heav- en. Some of them men who took the highest honors at Yale and Princeton and Harvard and Oxford and Edin- burgh. Some of them women, gentlest and most Christlike, who, to save peo- pie they never saw. turned their backs on luxurious homes to spend their days in self repatriation, saying goodby to father and mother and afterward good by to their own children as ciroum- stances compel them to send the little ones to England, Scotland or America. I have seen these foreign missionaries in their homes all around the world, and I stamp with indignation upon the literary blackguardism of foreign corre- 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 defamers will not get near enough to the shining gates to see the faintest glint of any one of the 1a pearls which make up the 12 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 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 in the Ottoman empire since 1920 leave the archangel 10 announce on the day of | judgment You will see it reasonable | that put so much emphasis on Ameri- canism in the Ottoman empire when | tell you that America, notwithstanding all the disadvantages named, has now over 27,000 students in day schools in that empire and 35, 900 children in her Sabbath schools, and that America has expended in the Turkish empire for its betterment over $10, 1000, 900. Has not America right to be heard? Aye, it will be heard 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 ican reporters, then through some of his 360 wives. What to do with himi There ought to be some St. Helena to which he could be exiled while the na- tions of Europe appoint ruler of their own to clean out and take possession o1 the palaces of Constantinople. Tonight this august assemblage in the capital oi the United States, in the name of tho God of nations, indicts the Turkish gov ernment for the wholesale assassination in Armenia and invokes the interfer | euco Ol Almighty Sou anu euo protost o eastern and western hemispheres
 A Cobweb of Spiders.
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 Turkish government is opposed to an.
 relief of the Armenian sufferers, as
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 for Armenian relief was offered me if
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