The Penn's Grove record., 1896-01-17
NUMBER 26.

some OF. HELENA 10 Wnlcn Ne could De exiled
while the Nations of Europe appoint II ruler
of their own to clean out and take possession
OF the palaces OF Constantinople. Tonight
this august assemblage in the capital of thu
United States, in the name of the God OF
Nations, indicts the Turkish Government for
the wholesale assassination In Armenia and
fnvokes the Interference of Almighty God
and the protest OF Eastern and Western
~Hemispheres.
But what is the duty OF the hour? Sym
patty, deep, wide, tremendous, immediatei
A religious paper, the Christian Herald. OF
New York, has led the way with munifcent
contributions collected from its subscribers.
But the Turkish Government Is opposed to
any relief of the Armenian sufferers. as I
personally know. Last August, before l had
any idea Of becoming r fellow citizen with
you Wasaingtonians. $4,000 for Armenian
relief was offered me II 1 would personally
take that relief to Armenia. My passage was
to be engaged on the City Of Paris, but a
telegram was sent to Constantinople asking
II the Turkish Government would grant me
protection on such an errand OF mercy.
A c~ablegram said the Turkish Govern
ment wished to know to what points In
Armenia I desired to go with that relief. In
our reply four cities were named one OF
them the scene Of what had been the chief
massacre. A cablegram came from Constsn-
tinople saying that | had better send the
money to the Turkish Governments mixed
commission. and the would distribute II.
So a cobwe OF spiders proposed u relief
committee for unfortunate flies. Well, a
man who would start up through the noun
tains OF Armenia with $4,000 aud no Gov
eminent protection would be guilty OF monu-
mental foolhardiness. The Tur ish Govern
ment has in every possible way hinisrst
Armenian relief.
Now whereas that angel OF mercy. Clara
Barton. who appeared on the battletields OF
fredericksburg, Antietam, Falmouth and
Cedar Mountain and under the blaze OF
French and German guns at Metz and Paris
and in Johnstown floods and Chariestown
earthquake and Michigan fires and Russian
famine2 1t was comparatively of little i'm
portance that the German Emperor deo-
orate her with the Iron Cross, for God hath
decorated her In the sight of all Nations
with a glory that neither time nor eternity
can dim. Born In a Massachusetts, village.
Rbe came 10 her girlhood to this cityto serve
our Government in the patent office, but af-
forward went forth from the doors of hat
patent office with a divine patent signed and
sealed by God Himself to heal all 1.-THE wounds
she could touch aud make the horrors of the
food and fire and plague and hospital
fly her presence. God bless Clara Barton.
Just as l expected, she lifts the banner of the
Red Cross. Turkey and all Nations are
pledged to respect and defend that Red
Gross, although that color of cross does not,
in the opinion OF many, stand for Christian
ity. In my opinion II does stand for Chris
tianity, for was not the cross under which
most OF US worship red with the blood of the
Son of God. red with the best blood that was
ever shed, red with the blood pouring out
for the ransom of the world? Then lead on,
oh, Red Cross. and let Clara Barton carry It'll
The Turkish Government is bound to protect
her, and the chariots OF God are 10000 and
their characters are angels Of deliverance.
and they would all ride down at once to roll
over and trample under the hoof OF
their white horses any Of her assaiiants.
May the $500, 900 she seeks be laid at her
feeti Then may the ships that carry her
across Atlantic and Mediterranean seas DO
guided safely by Him who trod into sapphire
pavement bestormed Galilee. Upon soil In
carnadined with martyrdom let the Red
Gross be planted until every demolished viii
lage shall be rebuilded q every pang OF
hunger be fed n every wound of cruelty
be healed and Armenia stand with as much
liberty TO serve God In its own way as In
this the best land of all the earth, we, the
defendants Of the Puritans and Hollanders
and Huguenots, are free to worship the
Christ who came to set all Nations free.
1t has been said that II We go over there to
interfere on another continent that will i'm
ply the right for other Nations to interfere
with affairs on this continent, ana 80 the
mOQEDo uUctElu6 DO IbOpdEulLcus No. uOt
President Cleveland expressed the sentiment
of every intelligent and patriotic American
when he Numbered from the White House q
warning to all Nations that there is not one
acre or one inch more Of ground on this
continent for any transatlantic Government
to occupy. And by that doctrine we tand
now and shall forever stand. But there Is .
doctrine as much higher than the Monroe
doctrine as the heavens are higher than the
earth, and that is the doctrine of human
itarianism and sympathy and Christian help
fulness which one cold December midnight,
with loud and multftudinous chant,
awakened the shepherds. Wherever there IL
Q wound 1t is our duty, whether as indl-
viduals or as Nations, to balsam 1t. Wher-
ever there Is a knife OF assassination lifted
1t is our duty to ward of the blade. her
ever men are prosecuted foy their relig-
ion It is our duty to break thar arm OF
power, whether 1t be thrust forth from q
Protestant church, or a Catholic cathedral,
or q Jewish synagogue, or a mosque Of
Islam. We all recognize the right on a small
scale. II, going down the road, we find q
ruflan maltreating a child, or a human
brute insulting q woman, we take a hand in
the contest II we are not towards, and
though we be slight in personal presence,
because Of our indignation we come to weigh
about twenty tons, and the harder we pun
ish the villain the louder our ou-oience ap-
plauds US. In such case we do no: keep our
In our pockets. arguing that IL we in
tertere with the brute the brute might think
he would have a right to interfere with US,
and 40 jeopardize the Monroe doctrine. The
fact Is thai the persecution of the Armshians
by the Turks must be stopped, or God Al
mighty will curse all Christendom for its
damnable Indifference and apathy. But the
trumpet of resurrection Is about to sound
for Armenia.
Did I say in opening that on one OF tho
peaks OF Armenia, this very Armenia of
which we speak. In Noah's time the ark land
ed, according TO the myth, as some think,
but according to Gods SAY 50" as I know,
and that 1t was after a long storm of forty
days and forty nights, called the deluge, and
that afterward a dove went forth from that
ark and returned with an olive leaf In her
beak2 Even SO now there Is another ark be-
ing launched, but this one goes sailing not
over a deluge OF water, but q deluge of blood
the ark of American sympathy-and that
ark, landing on Ararat, from its window
shall fly the dove Of indness and peace to
find the olive leaf OF returning prosperity,
white all the mountains OF Moslem preju-
dice, oppression and cruelty shall stand
fifteen cubits under. Meanwhile We would
like to gather all the dying groans OF
all the 600,0 900 victims OF Mohammedan
oppression and intone them into one
prayer that would move the earth and the
heavens, hundreds of millions OF Chris
voices, American and European
out: 30 God Most High, spare Thy
children! With mandate from the throne
nurl back upon their hhunehes the horses of
the Kurdish cavalry. Stop the rivers of
blood. With the earthquakes Of Thy wrath
the foundations of the palaces of the
Sultan. Move all the Nations OF Europe to
command cessation OF cruelty. II need be,
lot the warshtps of civilized Nations boom
their Indignation. Let the crescent go down
before the cross, and the Migbty.one who
hath on His vesture and IN His thigh a
written King of Kings and Lord OF
Lords go forth, conqueriEg and to conquer.
o Lord. 10 the Kingdom! HaLeluiahi
AmenI'