St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-24
More Pleas For Armenia.

AT the national Christian Endeavor
convention at Washington, part of last
fridays session was devoted to out
ragged Armenia. Miss Leitch, native of
Ryegatc, and Evangelist Mills, we'll
remembered in st. Johnsbnry, were
among the speakers. Rev. F. T, Green,
secretary of the Armenian Relief Commits
sion, made an impassioned plea for our
fellow Christians in that land, Among
other things Mr.. Green said:
| was born in the land OF the Sultan,
where my father is still laboring in the
thirty.cighth year of his service as a mis-
sonarv of the American Board. After
spending my boyhood i'll Constantnople,
and being educated in the United States,
set sail Just six years ago yesterday to
90 myself as a missionary from Chris
tian America to darkest Armenia, at
Van thousand miles into the interior
from Constantinople, and in sight of
Mount Ararat. have come back from
Armenia missionary to Christendom,
How can missionaries be heard above
the babel of selfish, jealous and discor-
dant cries that rise from a Christian
world Indifferent to every precept of
humanity as well as religion? At time
when churches are being turned into
mosques and schools into cattle sheds,
and when-most dlshcartening OF all
| the gifts of American Christians are so
small that the missionary board is COM
PEELED to order retrenchment to the ex-
tent of thirty per cent ofthe work hither-
to carried on-under these circumstances
! say, a few of the missionaries at the
front may well be spared for the more
urgent work of arousing the churches at
home. Water cannot rise higher than
its source. The apathy Of the Christian
world is felt in the darkest recesses oil
heathenism and Islam.
Christian Endeavorers, this work be-
longs to you. Shall we who are horri-
fled at the stoning of Stephen the first
martyr, stand by like Saul, consenting
unto the death" OF the Armenians, the
martyr race of the nineteenth century
The lesson taught by these massacrcs is
not that the Kurd is brigand or that
the Turk is mercilcss and lustful. That
was known before, and is what their re-
ligion has made them, and will continue
to make them, until the power OF the
crescent is broken. The great lessons to
be learned from these horrors is that
Christendom is not Christian The very
word Christian has lost its meaning and
been made odious. 1t may yet become a
term of ridicule and reproach. We need
another ideal and another word to ex-
press it, Oh, you who rejoice in the
name OF Christian Endeavorers, would
YOU feel comfortable under the name
| Christlike Endeavorers Do you really
want to be like Him who, though He
was rich, yet for our sakes became poor
| Then give up your Injuries that others
may have the necessaries of life. The
| price OF glass Of soda water or horse
car ride will keep a child who is starving
! in Armenia for week The price of a
concert ticket or a pair of gloves or a
feather on your hat is the difference be-
tween life and death for some one, Ev-
cry dollar given not only keeps body and
soul together, but adds new strength to
the moral and spiritual nature of those
poor Christians of outrage and fanati.
cism, There is point of exhaustion
| pcyonu winch tney cannot resist. Save
them ere it is too late.
Never was there more economical and
iar-reaching system of relief than that
established with so much energy, fidelity
and skill throughout that vast region OF
suffering and desolation. The work pecu.
harly belongs to us, for it is entirely in
the hands OF American missionaries and
the Red Cross agents under our own dis.
tinguished Clara Barton. With one ac.
cord the American people urged her to
go forth and pledged themselves to sup.
port the Red Cross in the name Of
Him whose blood dyed the cross Of
our salvation. Let us make good our
word; let us uphold the honor of our
civilization; let us prove, the sincerity
and value of our Christianity; let US
wash from our hands the blood of these