New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-11-09

THE REV DIR. HALDEMAN PRAISES THE SUI
TAN AND DENOUNCES THE ARMENIANS

THE REV DR. HALDEMAN PRAISES THE SUI
TAN AND DENOUNCES THE ARMENIANS.
The Rev. Dr. Hademan. Of the First Baptist
Church Seventy-ninth-st. and the Boulevard. delv-
cred a sermon last night the Eastern question
His discourse was In defence of the Turks ana he
argued that the Armenians only got what they de-
served. He said in part:
The Eastern question has three elementsmthe
Turks. Palestine ard the Jew. Just now the IuTk
is in everybody's mouth. People cannot say things
jncarnHtH A. soldier he IS thought 10 Re the en-
bodiment of beasty brutality yet the Turkish soldiers
mouth as English soldiers have done. They have
never been fendish Spanish soldiers at our very
yet Mahometansm has never done what proiesSei
Christianity of middle ages has doneiurned men ana
as a citizen and yet a drunken Turk is a rare siEnt
an5 rd and yet the Who'll cvzeI world
lately been at the feet Of Ii Hung Chang: a mont
wealth was VIGOROUSLY gotten ny bribery and cor
rupton Why should China be sauted for her cor tor
answer is that the Turks have been guilty OF wicked
Many Of these reported outraees nave never oc-
CURED. Many have been exaggeIated ana; as , 10y
those which hays taken pace Born 1e conspron lie
is oily and obsequious. always plotting ngiS 1 rhe
Armenian headquarters are in Sons'ahrnops
Many of them are Anarchists and bomb ,hrow', -,
innocent clerks in ii. They have threatened to
poison the water scatter pestilencc in order t.
bombs whenever they had chance. unn ~, rho
They had their agents everywhere soaring up th'
world with false reports about the Turks. IheEE
have used Christianity as pretext Many good
people suppose thes" Armenians TO be 'hristitl
lambs suffering frcm Turkish wolves; but mo
Christianity Is Of peculiar sor, For years tHep"
among them trying TO convert them;
The root of all these troubles Is political ntlgne.
England uses the Armenian to undermine ne
Turks and makes herself necessity in Iuiklsnn
policy. to offset the Russian The bottom ROOT OF All
is Armenian ambition. The Armenian wants 10 ~,
heir to the Turkish Empire himself lie Is WORK,
ing this scheme for all it is worth He has worked
IL in Bulgaria. in Greece. and lately in Cret"
this Government, try to overthrow IroiSstahilsni
and turn the country over TO the rope hoy ION.
in this country can be Just as 9ad as IN lurkr..
The draft riots in New-YOrk and the Italian flotS
in New-Orleans demonstrate this The Ire1ideni
would not be- responsible. The Sultan would be
no more so for the riots provoked by conspiring
Armenians. All accounts show the sultan TO he a
loyal. upright ruler doing me neS Re can Ti,n
lying about him and the whoie 'nris'ian worn
gone sentimcntay crazy on behalf OF the Ar
menians, he can rule at an i ih nDt,s ,'nd
menians ought 10 be silcnced ana the sultan h'P'u
to carry his reform.
The Turkish Empire is necessary 10 the peace, o;
Europe and Asia Those now WIG ADVISE nn, n 1he v a
PROFOUNDLY But the Turk is there to-day by the
will of God in order that the land Of Palestine
may keep it's Sabbath and the Jews still remain
in exile The Turks would stay there till the DE-
creed hour should come.
Palestine is the great arena. and the TURK TO
day is the key to the situation. Many of the Jews
are already discussing the rebuilding of the Tenn
pie The contamination will be the coming Of Christ
The Turk will go. not because ne i more WI k,d
the divine purpose. The jew will take his place
and Christ would come. Thus are prophcsy and
ton and he who LOOKS through it would get the
vision of the Coming King.