Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-01-18

Prayer" into Turkish. Seventeen Arme-
mans were sentenced to 10 years i'm
prisonment for >rescuing a Christian
bride from the bancIts.
This is the way tx Turkish govern
ment amuses itself iii 'ime of peace.
Those are the delights of Turkish civil
cation. But when the days of massacre
como, then deeds arc done which may
not be unveiled in any refined assem-
blage, and if one speaks of the horrors,
he must do so i'll we'll poised and eau
tious vocabulary. Hundreds of Villages
destroyed! Young men put in piles of
brushwood, which are then saturated
with kerosene and set Oh fire Mothers,
in the most solemn hour that even comes
in woman's life, hurled out and bay
oneted Eyes gouged out and dead and
dying hurled into the same pitt Tho
slaughter of Lucknow and Cawnpur,
India, III 1857, eclipsed in ghastlinoss
The worst scenes of the French revolu-
ton in Paris made more tolerable i'll con-
trast In many regions of Armenia tho
only undertakers today are the jackals
and hyenas. Many of the chiefs of tho
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 sui
tan sent silk banners, in delicate appre-
citation of their services. Five hundred
Thousand Armeniuns put to death or dy-
ing of starvation This moment, while
speak, all up and down Armenia sit
many people, freezing i'll the ashes of
their destroyed homes, bereft of most
of their households and awaiting the
club of assassination to put them out Of
their miserv.
Glow Long, o Lord"
No wonder that the physicians Of
that region declared that among all tho
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 thousandth part told
None but God and orr suffering broth
ers and sisters in that faroff land know
the whole story, and it will not be
known until in the coronations of heay-
Ell Christ shall lift to a special throne
of glory these heroes and heroines, say
ing, These are they who camo ont of
great tribulation and had their robes
washed and made white in the blood OF
the lamb. >" Ny Lord and my God, thou
didst OF the cross suffer for them, but
thou, surely, o Christ. wilt not forget
how much they have suffered for thee
l dare not deal i'll imprecation, but L
never so much enjoyed the inprecatory
songs OF David rs since / have heard
how those Turks arc treating the Ar
menians. The fact is, Turkey has got to
be divided up among other nations. OF
course tie European nations must take
the CHEZ part, but Turkey ought to be
compelled to ply America for the Amer
lean 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 Oh that
Turkey, the American eagle ought to put
n It's bill
Who arc 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-
burah. Some Of them women, gentlest
and most Christlke, who, to save peo-
pie they never saw, turned their backs
on luxurious homes to spend their days
in self expatriation, saying goodby to
father aud mother and afterward good
by to their own children as circum-
stances compel them to send the little
ones to England, Scotland or America
have seen these foreign missionaries
in their homes all around the world,
and 1 stamp with indignation upon the
literary blackguardism of foreign CORE
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 tLeir defamers will not get hear
enough to the shining gates to see the
faintest CLINT Of any one of the y
pearls which make up the ~ gates
The Cowa-dly 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 a life Of such gross
minerals that the pure households of
the missionaries are perpetual rebuke
Buzzards never did believe i'll doves, and
if there is anything that nightshade
hates it is the water lily. What the $50
American missionaries have suffere1.ln
the Ottoman empire since 1920 leave
the archangel TO announce on the day OF
Judgment. You will see it reasonable
that 1 put so much emphasis on Ameri-.
canism in the Ottoman empire when l
tell you that America, Notwithstanding
all the disadvantages named, has now
over $1,000 students in day schools Ill
that empire and 80, 900 children in her
Sabbath schools, and that America has
expended III the Turkish empire for its
betterment over $40, 900, 600. Has not
America right to be heard? Aye, it
will be heard l am glad that great in
dignation meetings are being held all
over this country. That poor, weak
cowardly sultan, whom saw few
years ago ride to his mosque for worship,
guarded by 1000 armed men, many OF
them mounted Oh prancing chargers,