Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-01-22
REr. DR.. TaLuaGE.
The Eminent Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subjects "Armenian Horrors.'s

same name IA now. Armenia Is chiefly a
tableland, 1000 feet above the level Of the
sea. and on ons OF its peaks Noah's ark
landed, with its human family and fauna
that were to fiil the earth. That region was
the birthplace OF the rivers which fertilized
the garden OF Eden when Adam and Eve
lived there, their only roof the crystal skies
and their carpet the emerald of rich grass.
Its inhabitants, the ethnologists tell Us. are
q superior type OF the Cauc asian race Tn ,tr
religion Is. founded on the Bible. Their
Saviour is our Clrist. Their crime Is that
they will not become followers of Mohammed
that Jupiter Of sensuaii,y. To drive them
from the face OF the earth is the ambition OF
all Mohanmeians. To accomplish this
murder Is no crime, and wholesale mas.
sacrs Is a matter Of enthusiastic appro
baton and Governmental reward.
The prayer sanctioned by highest Moham-
medaa authority and rscired every day
\ throughout Turtey and E Egypt, while styling
1 all those not Mohammedans as infldels. is as
follows: 30 Lord OF all creatures! o Allah
Destroy the inides and polytheists. thine
enemies, the enemies Of the religion. o
Allah, make their children orphans and defile
their bodies, cause their feet to slip, give
them and their families. their households
AMI their women, their children and their
relatives BY marriage, their brothers an1
their friends, their possessions aud ths race,
their wealth and their lands as booty to the
Moslams, o Lord of all creatures!' The life
| OF an Armenian in the presence OF those who
make that prayer is OF no more value thar
the life OF q summer insect.
The Sultan Of Turkey sits on a throne i'm.
personating that brigandage and assassina.
| tion. At this time all civilized Nations ara
| In horror at the attempts of that Monomme-
dan Government 10 destroy all the Christians
| OF Armenia. 1 hear somebody taking as
| though some new thing were happening aud
that the Turkish Government had taken a
| new role OF tragedy on .he stage of Nations
| No, no! She is at the same Did business
Overlooking her diabolism OF other centur.
| les, We come down to our century to find
that Ia 1922 the Turkish Government slew
d, 600 8nti-MOslems. and in 1850 she slew
10000, and in 1860 she slew IL 200 and IL
1876 she slew 10 ,O0o. Anything short of the
slaughter of thousands OF human beings does
| not put enough red wine into her cup OF
abominat;on to make It worth quaf1ng. Nor
ia this the only time she has promised re.
| form. In the presence OF The warships at
the mouth of the Dardanelles she has prom.
ised the civilized Nations of the earth that
| she would stop her butcheries and the inter
ternatiOnal and hemisphere farce has been
enacted of believing what she says, when all
| the past ought to persuade US that she Is
! only pausing In her atrocities to put Ma
| rioDs off the track and then resume the work
OF death
| In 1920 Turkeyin treaty with Russia prom.
ised to alleviate the condition OF Christians,
but the promise was broken. In 1889 the
| then Sultan promised protection of life and
property without reference to religion and
| the promise was broken. In 1874, at the de-
| mand OF an English minister plenipoten
the Sultan declared after this public execu.
ton OF an Armenian at Constantinopie
| that no such death penalty should again be
inflicted, and the promise was broken. In
1850. at the demand OF foreign Nations. the
| Turkish Government promise protection &c
Protestants, but to this day the Protestant:
| at Stamboul are not allowed TO build church,
| although they have the funds ready anC
| the Greek Protestants, who have a church,
| are not permitted to worship in II. In
| 1856, after the Crimean War. Turkey prom.
! ised tina. no one should be hindered In the
| exercise of the religion he professed, an6
| that promise has been broken. In 1878, at
the memorable treaty of Berlin. Turkey
promised religious liberty to all her subjects
| in every part OF the Ottoman Empire, an6
the promise was broken. Not once in all the
centuries has the Turkish Govern ment KEEP
her promise OF mercy. SO far from any i'm.
provement the condition of the Armenian.
has become worse and worse year by year,
and all the promises the Turkish Govern.
ment now makes are only gaining Of time
by which she is making preparation for the
complete determination of Christianity from
her borders.
No wonder that .he ply sicians Of that re
gion declared that among ali the men and
women that were down with wounds and
SlckueSS anu unlcf lilclT care upt ono Wduteu
to ger we'll. Remember that Early all the
reports that have come to US of the Turkish
outrages have been manipulated and modi.
fed aud softened by the Turks themselves.
he story ia not half told, or q hundredtt
part told, or thousandth part told. None
but God and our suffering brothers and sis.
ters in thai. iar-off and know the whole story
and it will not be known until in the corona
tions of heaven Christ shall lift 70 a specia
throne of glory these heroes and heroines
saying, These are they VINO came out o
great tribulation and had their robes washed
and made white in the blood of tn,
Lamb My Lord and my God, Thor
didst on the cross suffer for them, bu,
Thou. surely, o Christ, wilt not forget
how much they have suffered for Thee!
dare not deal in imprecarion, but L never SO
much enjoyed the imprecatory songs OF
David as since I have heard how those Turks
are treating the Armenians. The fact is,
Turkey has got to oe divided up among 9th
or Nations. or course the European Nations
must take the chief part, but Turkey ought
to be compelled to pay America for the
American Mission buildings and American
schoolhouses she has destroyed and to sup
port the wives and children OF the Amert
cans ruined by this wholesale butchery
Wnen the English lion and the Russian beal
put their paws on that Turkey, the American
eagle ought TO put in its bill.
Who are these American and English and
Scotch missionaries who are being bounded
among the mountains Of Armenia by the
Mohammedans? The noblest men aud wo.
men this side OF heaven. Some of them men
who took the highest honors at Yale and
Princeton and Harvard and Oxford anc
Edinburgh. Some of them women, gentle
and most Chrstlike, who, to save people
they never saw, turned their backs on luxu-
rious homes to spend their days in seif-expa.
triation, saying Roodby to father and mother
and II terward goodby to their own children
pt ,cfu ma IaA , ham 20 and tne
little ones to England, Scotland or America.
have seen these foreign missionaries
in their homes all around the world
and l stamp with indignation
upon the literary bIackyuardism of for
eign correspondents VINO have deprecated
these heroes and herones who are wiling I,
live and die for Chr,st's sake. They viii
have the highest thrones in heaven. while
their defamers will not get near enough tc
the shining gates 10 see the faintest CLINT
AM one of the twelve pearls which N AXE "
the twelve gales.
This defamation Of missionaries is aug
mented BY the dissolute English, American
and Scotch merchants who go to foreign
cities. leaving their families behind them
Those disso!nte merchants in foreign ci:ie
lead lie OF such gross immorais that TIT
pure households Of the missionaries ara
perpe, ual rebuke. Buzzards never did be
i-ve in doves, and IL there is anything tina
night-haSe hates il is the water lily. VIVA
the $50 American missionaries have saffe- o,
in the Ottomrn Empire sIncs 1870 leave th
Hrchancei to announce on the day OF judg
ment. You will see it reasonable that pu
50 much emphasis On Americanism in tn
Ottoman Empire wnen tell you that Amer
lea. Notwithstanding ali the disadvantage.
named, has ROW over u 900 students in da
scn.ols IN that Empire and $50 childre
in her Sabbath-schoo!s, and that Americ
has expended In the Turkish Empire for its
betrerment ever $4,000, 900. Has not
America right to be heard? Aye, It
will be heard! am glad that great in
dignaion meetings We being held all over
this country. That poor, weak, cowardly
Sultan, whom I saw . few years ago ride to
biz Hos2us fof HQuhiQs guarded pY 1000