The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-01-25

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modified and softened by the Turks
themselves, The story Is not hall
told, or a hundredth part told, or q
thousandth part told. None but zoo
and our suffering brothers and sisters
In that far-off land know the whole
story. and it will not be known until,
In the coronations of Heaven, Christ
shall III: 10 special throne of glory
these heroes ana heroines. saying:
"These are they who came out OF
great tribulation and had their
robes washed, and made white
In the blood of the Lambl" My
Lord and my God! Thou didst
on the cross suffer for them. but Thou,
surely, oh, Christ! wilt not forget how
much they have suffered for Thee! !
dare not deal in imprecation, but l
never so much enjoyed the impreca-
tory songs of David as since l have
heard how those Turks arc treating
the Armenians. The fact Is, Turkey
has got TO be divided up among other
nations. OF course. the European ma
lions must take the chief part, but
Turkey ought to be compelled TO pay
America for the American mission
/ buildings and American school houses
/ she has destroyed, and to support the
wives and children of the Americans
ruined by this wholesale butchery.
! When the English lion and the Rus
! sian bear put their paws on that Tur-
key the American eagle ought to put
/ in its bill.
| Who are these American and En-
! glish and Scotch missionaries who are
being bounded among the mountains
of Armenia by the Mohammedans?
The noblest men and women this side
of Heaven. Some of them, men who
took the highest hohors at Yale and
Princeton. and Harvard, and Oxford,
and Edinburgh. Some Of them wom-
en-. gentlest and most Christ like. who,
20 save people they never saw, turned
their backs on luxurious homes 10
spend their days in self-expatria-
ton. saying good-by to father and
mother, and afterward good-by 10 their
own children. as circumstances compel
them 10 send the little ones 10 En-
gland, Scotland or America. have
seen these foreign missionaries in their
homes all around the world, and !
stamp with indignation upon the liter
AIRY blackguardism of foreign CORE
spondents who have deprecated these
heroes and heroines who are willing 10
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 gate TO
see the faintest CLINT of any one of
the twelve pearls which make up the
twelve gates. This defamation OF
missionaries is augmented by the dis
solute English, American and Scotch
merchants who go 10 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 mis-
sionaries are perpetual rebuke. Buzz
yards never did believe In doves, and
II there is anything that nightshade
hates it IS the water lily. What the
$50 American missionaries have suf-
fered in the Ottoman empire since 1920
leave the archangel to announce
on the day of Judgment. You will
see it reasonab bic that put so much
emphasis on Americanism in the OF
toman empire when / tell you that
America, Notwithstanding all the
disadvantages named, has now over
twenty-sevcn thousand students in day
schools in that empire, and $4,000 chill
dren in her Sabbath schools, and that
America has expended in the Turkish
empire for its betterment over ten mil
lion dollars. Has not America n right
70 be heard? Aye. it will be heard.
am glad that great Indignation meet
ings are being held all over this coun-
try. That poor, weak, cowardly sui
tan. whom saw few years ago ride
to 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
American reporters, then through some
OF his $50 wives. What to do with
him? There ought TO be some ST.
Helena TO which he could be exiled,
while the nations of Europe appoint
ruler of their oyn TO clean out and
take possession of the palaces of Con-
stantinople. Tonight this august as
semblage In the capital OF the United |
States, in the name of the God of Ma |
tions, indicts the Turkish government
for the wholesale assassination of Ar
menians, and invokes the interference
of Almighty God and the protest of
eastern and western hemispheres.
But what is the duty of the hour?
sympathy, deep, wide, tremendous,
immediate! A religious paper, 1.-The
Christian Herald" of New York, has |
led the way with munificent contribu-
tons collected from it's subscribers. |
But the Turkish government is op-
posed to any relief of the Armenian |
sufferers, as personally know. Last |
August, before l had any idea of be-
coming a fellow-citizen with Wash
ington, $4,000 for Armenian re-
lief was offered me il / would
take that relief TO
Armenia My passage was to be en-
gagged on the City of Paris, but tele-
gram. was sent TO Constantinople, ask
ing IL the Turkish government would
grant me protection on such an errand |
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