The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-02-13

~n.y. Tsi,psge's sermon ON tn. Ke-
,.ot outr~sss by the Turks.
# Y,s~as appropriate that in the pres.
M ~ the chief men OF this nation
other oations Or. Talmage should
.'sl ,he story OF Armenian massacre.
'ss.t will be the extent for good OF
Inn DISCOURSE none can tell. The
vas III. Kings, XIX. 81; They es-
n go into the land OF Armenia"
a Bible geography this is the first
~ x.c that Armenia appears, called then
4 .,~ thc same name as now. Armenia is
,A,say d tableland, 1000 feet above
Ms Invel Of the sea, and on one Of
I, Deaks Noah's ark landed. with
K. human family and fauna that
s,s TO fiji the earth. That region was
4 AZ birth place Of the rivers which fer
.tlzcd the Garden of Eden when Adam
M Eve lived there, their only roof the
lTsstal skies, and their carpet the en-
sFsld OF rich grass Its inhabitants,
the cthnologisLs tell us, are superior
s,pe OF the Caucasian race. Their re-
4 ;igion Is founded on the Bible. Their
kayiour is our Christ. Their crime Is
y dat they will not become followers OF
Mohnmmed. that Jupiter of sensuality.
10 drive them from the face of the
sarth is the ambition of all Moham-
4 ,s>aans.#s
70 accomplish this murder Is no
sFine. aud Wholesale massacre Is
matter % enthusiastic appreciation and
4 g6vcrnmentaI reward. The prayers
ssnetioned by highest Mohammedau
Anthority, and recited every day
throughout Turkey and Egypt, while
styling all those not Mohammedans as
inSdels, Is as follows: 20 Lord Of all
crrAturesl o Allah Destroy the In
Dlels and Pollytheists, thine enemies,
me enemies Of the religionl o Allah! |
Make their children orphans and de-
Ole their bodies: cause their feet 10 slip; |
give them and their families, |
and their households, and their
women, and their children and |
their relatives by marriage,
their brothers and their friends, their
POSSESSIONS aud the race, their wealth
and their lands as booty TO the Mos.
LENS. o Lord Of all creatures" The
life Of an Armenian in tho presence Of
those who make that prayer is of no
more value than the life Of a summer
Insect The sultan OF Turkey sits on
Q throne mpersonsting that brigand-
age and assassination. AT this time
all civilized nations arr in horror at
the attempts of that Mohammedan
to destroy all the Chris
tans of Armenia. ] hear some body
talking as though some new thing
were happening, and that the Turk
lsh government had taken a new role
Of tragedy on the stage of nations
No, no! She is at the same old BUSH
nesS Overlooking her diabolish of
other centuries, we come down TO our
century to find that in 1922 the Turk
oh government slew $4,000 anti.Mos-
ems, and in. 1850 she slew 10000, and
% 1860 she slew il 200. and ia 1876 she
lew 10000. Anything short Of the
daughter of thousands Of human be-
ngs does not put enough red wine in {
o her cup of abumination to make 1t Z
Worth quafling. Nor is this the only I
iule she has promised to reform. In the
'resencc of warships at the mouth of {
he Dardanelles, she has promised the I
ivilized nations OF the earth that /
he would stop her butcheries. and the '
unconditional and hemisphere farce $
as been enacted Of believing what !
he SAYS, when all the past ought to }
ersuade us that she Is only pausing d
her atrocities TO put nations off the
racie and then resume the work OF
cath. In ls20 Turkey, in treaty with q
ussia. promised to alleviate the con- Il
ition or Christians, but the promise 2
as broken. In 1880 the Chen sultan
protection for life and prop u
-ty without reference 10 religion, d
nd the promise was broken. In .
80, Mt the demand of an Eng" a
sh minister plenipoteutiary, the :,
l)tan declared. after the public =
secution Of m Armenian at Constan- y
nople md that no such death PEN u
W should again be Indicted, and the
'omise was broken In 1850, AZ the u
smand OF foreign nations, the Turk b
b government promised protection TO Q
rotestants, but 70 this day the 4
rotestants al STEAMBOAT nrenot allow e.
To build church, although they x
I'VE the funds ready, and the Greek .
who have a church, are q
u permitted to worship in i. in e.
50. after the Crimean war, Turkey :.
omised that no one should be hin- y
red ia the exercise Of the religion 81
professed, and that promise has So
en broken, In 1878. at the memoir q
lie treaty Of Berlin, Turkey promised q
ligious liberty to all her subjects In e
cry part Of the Ottoman empire, ana =
Q promise was broken. Not once 10 "