Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-01-17

Armenia. Ny passage was to be engaged
on the City Of Paris, but telegram was
sent TO Constantinople asking if tho
Turkish government would grant me
protection on such an errand Of mercy.
A cablegram said the Turkish govern
ment wished to know to what points in
Armenia l desired to go with that re-
lief. In our reply four cities were nam
ed, one Of them the scene Of what had
been the chief massacre. A cablegram
came from Constantinople saying that 1
had better send the money to the Turk
ish governments mixed commission,
and they would distribute it. So a cob
web Of spiders proposed a relief COM
mittee for unfortunate flies. Well,
man who would start up through the
mountains Of Armenia with $4,000
and no governmental protection would
be guilty Of monumental foolhardiness.
The Turkish government has in every
possible way hindered Armenian relief.
An Angel Of Mercy.
Now where is that angel Of mercy,
Clara Barton, who appeared on the bat
tlefelds Of Fredericksburg, Antietam,
Falmouth and Cedar Mountain and un-
der the blaze Of French and German
guns at Metz and Paris and in Johns
town floods and Charleston earthquake
and Michigan fires and Russian famine?
1t was comparatively Of little impor.
tance that the German emperor decorated
her with the Iron Cross, for God hath
decorated her in the sight Of all nations
with q glory that neither time nor eter-
nifty can dim. Born in a Massachusetts
village, she came in her girlhood to this
city to serve our government in the pat
ent Office, but afterward went forth
from the doors Of that patent Office with
a divine patent signed and sealed by
God himself to heal all the wounds She
could touch and make the horrors Of the
food and fire and plague and hospital
fly her presence. God bless Clara Bar
toni Just as l expected, 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 it does stand for Christianity,
for was not the cross under which most
Of us worship red with the blood Of the
Son Of God, red with the best blood that
was ever shed, red with the blood pour
ed out for the ransom Of the world:
Then lead on, oh, Red Cross, ard let
Clara Barton carry itl The Turkish gov
ernment is bound to protect her, and
the chariots Of God are 10000 and their
charioteers are angels Of deliyerance,
and they would all ride down at once TO
roll over and trample under the boots Of
their white horses any Of her assailants.
May the $500, coo she seeks be laid at
her feet Then may the ships that carry
her across Atlantic and Mediterranean
seas be guided safely by him who trod
into sapphire pavement bestormed Cali
lee. Upon soil incarnadined with martyr
dom let the Red Cross be planted until
every demolished village shall be re-
builded and every pang Of hunger be fed
and every wound Of cruelty be healed
and Armenia stand with as much liber-
ty 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-
landers and Huguenots, are free to wor-
ship the Christ who came TO set all ma
tions free.
The Cry Of Duty.
1t has been said that if we 90 over
there to interfere on another continent
that will imply the right for other ma
tions to interfere with affairs on this
continent, and so the Monroe doctrine
be jeopardized No, no! President
Cleveland expressed the sentiment OF
every intelligent and patriotic Ameri-
can when he thundered from the White
House O warning to all nations that
there is not one acre or one inch more
Of ground on this continent for any
Transatlantic government TO occupy.
And by that doctrine we stand now and
shall forever stand. But there is doc
trine as much higher than the Monroe
doctrine as the heavens are higher than
the earth, and that is the doctrine OF
humanitarianism and sympathy and
Christian helpfulness which one cold
December midnight, with loud and
multitudinous chant, awakened the
sbepherds. Wherever there is wound 1t
is our duty, whether as individuals or
as nations, to balsam it, Wherever there
is a knife Of assassination lifted 1t Is
our duty to ward off the blade. Wher-
ever men are prosecuted for their reh-
gion it is our duty to break that arm OF
power. whether it be thrust forth from
a Protestant church, or a Catholic ca
thedral, or a Jewish synagogue, OF
mosque Of Islam. We all recognize the
right on small scale If, going down
the road, we find a rufiian maltreating
a child, or a human brute insulting a
woman. we take hand in the contest
if we are not towards, and though we
be slight in personal presence, because
of our indignation we come 10 weigh
about 20 tons, and the harder we punish
the villain the louder our conscience ap-
Glands Us. In such case we do not keep
our hands in our pockets, arguing that
IL we interfere with the brute the brute
might think he would have a right to
interfere with us, and so jeopardize the
Monroe doctrine. The fact Is that that
persecution Of the Armenians by the
Turks must be stopped, or God Al
mighty will curse all Christendom Tor
its damnable indifference and apathy.
But the trumpet Of resurrection is about
to sound for Armenia
American sympathy.
Did | say in opening that on one OF
the peaks Of Armenia, this very Arme-
MIA 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 l know, and that it was aft
er a long storm of 40 days and 40 nights,
called the deluge, and that afterward
dove went forth from that ark and re-.
turned with an olive leaf in her beak!
Even so now there is another ark being
launched, but this one goes sailing not
over deluge of water, but deluge OF
blood-the ark of American sympathy
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