The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-01-25
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Turkish Excuses In Armenia Wv
idly Portrayed.
Dr. Talmage Tells Why He Did Not Go -
Armenia with the Relief YuHd-
Words of Commentator
for Clara barton

story of the Armenian massacres I
his Washington congregation, pred
eating his remarks on the text:
They escaped into the land OF Armenia
Kings, xix, 81.
: In Biblical geography this is the frs
time that Armenia appears, calle'
then by the same name as now. Ar
menia is chiefly tableland, 1000 fee
above the level of the sea, and on ont
of the peaks Noah's ark landed, will
It's human family and fauna that wer'
70 fill the earth. That region was th'
birthplace of the rivers which ferti
lized the Garden of Eden when Adam
and Eve lived there, their only roo
the crystal skies, and their carpet the
emerald OF rich grass Its inhabitants
the ethnologists tell us, are superior
type of the Caucasian race. Their re
ligion is founded on the Bible. Their
Saviour is our Christ. Their crime
is that they will not become
followers Of Mohammed, that Ju.
piter Of sensuality. To drive
them from the face of the earth Is the
ambition of all Mohamme dams. To &C
complish this, murder is no crime, and
| wholesale massacre is matter OF en-
thusiastic appreciation and govern
mental reward. The prayer sanctioned
by highest Mohammedan authority and
recited every day throughout Turkey
and Egypt, while styling all those not
| MohamU.edans> as infdels, is as fol-
lows: 30 Lord of all creatures. o Al
lah. Destroy the infdels and Polythe-
lists, thine enemies. the enemies OF the
religion, o Allah! Make their children
orphans and defle their bodies; cause
their feet TO slip; give them and their
families, their households and their
women. and their relatives By mar
riage. their brothers and their friends.
their possessions and the race, their
wealth and their lands as booty 10 the
Moslems, o Lord of ali creatures"
The life of an Armenian in the pres
ence Of those who make that prayer IS
OF no more value than the life OF
summer insect. The sultan of Turkey
sits on a throne impersonating that
brigandage and assassination. At this
time all civilized nations are in horror
at the attempts Of that Mohammedan
government to destroy all the Chris
tians OF Armenia. hear somebody
talking as though some new thing
were happening, and that the Turkish
government had taken new role of
tragedy on the stage of nations. No,
no. She is at the same old business.
Overlooking her diabolism of other
centuries, we come down to our
- nd hot N
',Ne Turkish government slew 5O.-
oCo anti-Moslems, and in 1850
she slew 10000, and In 1850 she
slew 1900, and in 1876 she slew 10000.
Anything snort of she slaughter of
thousands Of human beings does not
Pat enough red wine into her cup OF
ebomination to make il worth quaffing.
Nor is this the only time she has prom
ised reform. In the presence of the
war ships at the mouth of the Oar
danelles, she has promised the civil
lied nations of the earth that she
would stop her butcheries. and the in
ternational and hemisphere farce has
been enacted of believing what she
says, when all the past ought to per-
suade US that she is only pausing in
her atrocities TO put nations off the
track and then resume the work of
death.
In 1890 Turkey. in treaty with Russia,
promised TO alleviate the condition of
Christians, but the promise was broken.
In 1899 the then sultan promised pro-
lection Of life and property without
reference 70 religion. and the promise
was broken. In ls4i. at the demand
of an English minister plenipotentiary,
the sultan declared, after the public
execution of an Armenian at Constan-
tinople, that no such death penalty
should again be indicted. and the prom
Use was broken. In 1850, at the defnand
Of foreign nations, the Turkish COY
eminent promised protection 10 Pro
testants, but to this day the Protes-
tants al Stamboul ore not allowed to
build a church, although they have
the funds ready, and the Greek
Protestants, who have a church.
are not permitted TO worship in
it. In 1856, after the Crimean
war, Turkey promised that no one
should be hindered in the exercise of
INC TcLSlOn ne progressed, ana that
promise has been broken. In 1878, at
the memorable treaty Of Berlin, Tur-
key promised religious liberty to all
her subjects in every part of the Otto
man empire, and the promise was
broken. Not once in all the centuries
has the Turkish government kept her
promise of mercy. So far from any
improvement, the condition of the Ar
menians has become worse and worse
year By year, and all the promises the
Turkish government now makes are
only gaining of time by which she is
making preparation for the complete
determination of Christianity from her
borders.
Many Of the chiefs of the massacres
were sent straight from Constantine
pie to do their work, and, having re-
turned, were decorated by the sultan.
To four of the worst murderers the
sultan sent silk banners, in delicate
appreciation of their services. Five
hundred thousand Armenians put to
death or dying of starvation. This
moment, while speak, all up and
down Armen ia sit many people, freez-
in0 in tho achoc - .Lo.-