The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-22

ScSieu Dy NoN NtUisO't, ~ IVA .,A-
wounds she could touch and make the
horrors of the flood and fire and
plague aud hospital by her presence.
God bless Clara Barton. Just as | ex-
pected, she lifts the banner Of the Red
Cross.
Turkey and all nations are pledged
to respect and defend that Red Cross,
although that color of cross does not,
in the opinion of many stand for
Christianity. In my opinion IL does
stand for Christianity, for was rot the
cross under which most OF as worship
rea with the blood OF the Son of God,
red with the best blood that was ever
shed, red with the blood poured out
for the ransom of the world? Then,
lead on, Q Red Cross. And let Clara
Barton carry it. The Turkish govern
ment 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
hoofs of their white horses any of her
assailants. May the $500, she seeks
be laid at her feet. Then may the
ships that carry her across Atlantic
and Mediterranean seas be guided safe
ly by him who trod in sapphire pave.
ment bestormed Galilee. Upon soil
incarnadined with martyrdom let the
Red Cross be planted, until every de-
molished village shall be rebuilded.
aud every pang OF hunger be fed, and
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
descendants Of the Puritans and Hol-
!anders and Huguenots, are free to
worship the Christ who came to set
all nations free.
Il has been said that if we 60 over
there to interfere on another continent
that will imply the right for other ma
tons to interfere with affairs on this
continent. and so the Monroe doctrine
be ieopardized No, no. President
Cleveland expressed the sentiment Of
every intelligent and patriotic Ameri-
can when he thundered from the
White House warning to all nations
that there is not one acre Or one inch
more of ground on this continent for
anv transatlantic government to occu-
py. And by that doctrine we stand
now ard shall forever stand.
But there is doctrine as much Ugh
er than the Monroe doctrine as the
heavens are higher than the earth, and
that IS the doctrine of humanitarian
ism and sympathy and Christian help
fuluess which one cold December
midnight, with loud and multitudin-
Gus chant, awakened the shepherds.
Wherever there is a wound it is our
duty, whether as individuals or as ma
tions, to balsam it. Wharever there
is a knife Of assassination lifted it is
our duty to ward of the blade Where
ever men are prosecuted for their re-
ligion it is our duty to break that arm
of power, whether it be thrust forth
from Protestant church or a Catho-
lie cathedral or a Jewish synagogue or
a mosque OF Islam. We all recognize
the right on a small scale. If, going
down the road, we find a ruflian NAL
treating a child, Or human brute in
sulting woman, we take hand in
the contest if we are not towards, and
though we be slight in personal pres
ence, because Of our Indignation we
come to weigh about 90 tons, and the
harder we punish the villain the loud
er our conscience applauds US. In
such case we do not keep our hands
in our pockets, arguing that if we in
terfere with the brute, the brute might
think he would havea right to inter
fere with US and so jeopardize the
Monroe doctrine.
The fact is that persecution Of the
Armenians by the Turks must be STOP
ped, or God Almighty will curse all
Christendom for its damnable inditfer.
ence and apathy. But the trumpet Of
resurrection is about to sound for Ar
D1en;s. Did I say in opening that on one
of the peaks of Armenia, this very
Armenia of which we speak, in Noah s
time the ark landed, according to the
myth, as some think, but according to
Gods say so, as know, and that it
was after a long storm of 20 days and
10 nights. called the deluge, and that
afterward dove went forth from that
ark and returned with an olive leaf in
her beak: Even so now there is an
other ark being launched, but this one
goes sailing. not over a deluge OF wa
ter, but deluge of blood-the ark Of
American sympathy-and that ark,
landing on Ararat, from its window
shall fly the dove of kindness and
peace, to find the olive leaf of return
ing prosperity, while all the noun
tains Of Moslem prejudice, oppression
and cruelty shall stand Is cubits und-
er. Meanwhile we would like to gath
er all the dying groans of all the 500,-
600 victims of Mohammedan oppres-
sion and intone them into one prayer
that would move the earth and the
heavens, hundreds of millions of
Christians voices American and Eu-
ropean, crying out: 80 God Most
High Spare thy children. With
mandate from the throne hurl back
upon their launches the horses of the
hUr0lSh caTaIry- stop the rivers OF
blood. With the earthquakes of thy
wrath shake the foundations of the
palaces of the sultan. Move all the
nations OF Europe to command cessa-
ton of cruelty. If need be, let the
warships of civilized nations boom
their indignation. Let the cres-
cent 60 down before the cross, and
the Mighty One who hath on his
vesture and on his thigh a name writ
ten King of Kings and Lord of Lords, )
go forth, conquering and to conquer.
Thine, O Lord, is the Kingdom, Hal
leluiah. Amen
What War Would Do.
TIE Detroit Tribune rightly con-
cluoes that in the event of war with
the United States, creditor Eng