The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-01-22
,ection on such IN GRAND OF mercy


ment wished TO know to what points III
Armenia | desired to go with that re-
lief. In our reply four cities were nam
cd, enc CT them the scene Of what bad
been tie chief massacre. A cabieSram
came from Constantinople saying that
had better send tie money to the Turk
ish government mixed commission,
and they would distribute it. So cob
web of spiders proposed relief COM
mittce for unfortunate flies. Well,
man who would start up through the
mountains of Armenia with $50.
and 10 governmental protection would
be guilty Of monumental fColhardlness.
The Turkish government has III every
possible way hindered Armenian rellof.
IN 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 foods and Charleston earthquake
and Michigan fires and Russian famine:
1t was comparatively Of little lmpor-
tance that the German emperor decorated
her with The Iron Cross, for God hath
decorated her in thu sight of all nations
with q glory that neither time nor eter-
nitv can dim. Born IN Massachusetts
village, shc calne in her girlhood to this
city to serve our government III the pat
ent Office, but afterward went forth
from the doors Of that patent Office with
a divine patent signed and sealed by
Cod himself to heal all the wounds she
could touch and make the horrors Of the
food and fro and plague and hospital
fiy her presence. God bless Clara Ear
ten! Just rs I 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 cut for the ransom of the world!
Then lead on, oh, Red Cross, and let
Clara Barton carry it! The Turkish gov
ernmert is bound to protect her, and
the chariots of God are $1,000 and their
eharioteers are angels Of deliverance,
and they would all ride down at once to
roll over and trample under the hoofs CT
their white horses any Of her assailants.
May the S500,000 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 bcstormed Cali
Ice. Upon soil incarnadined with martyr
dom let the Red Cross be planted until
every demolished village shall be re-
brilded and every pang of hunger be fed
and every wound of cruelty be healed
and Armenia stand with as much hbers
ty to serve God in its own way as III this
the best land CT all the earth, We, tho
descendants Of the Puritans and Eoi-
landers and HuguenOts, arc FREQ to Wcr-
ship tho Christ who came to Set all ma
ticnS free.
Tic Cry Of Duty.
It hes been said that if we go over
there to interfere Cl another continent
that will imply the right for other ma
ti5ns 10 interfere with affairs on this
continent, and so TIC Monroe doctrine
be jeopardzod. No, no! President
Cleveland expressed the sentiment Of
every intelligent and patriotic Ameri-
can when lie thundered from the White
Eoasc q warming to all nations that
there is not one acre or enc inch more
CT 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
trino as much higher than the Monroe
doctrine as the heavens arc higher than
the earth, ard that is the doctrine of
humanitarianism and sympathy and
Christian hclpfulness which oro cold
December midnight, with loud and
rultitudinous chant, awakened the
shephcrds. Wherever there is wound 1t
is our duty, whether as individuals or
as nations, to balsam it. Wherever there
| is 9 knife Of assassination lifted 1t is
our duty to ward off the blade. Wher-
ever men are prosecuted for their rell-
| sion it is our duty to break that arm of
power, whether it be thrust forth from
q Protestant church, or Catholic ca
thedral, or a Jewish synagogue, or a
mosque of Islam. We all recognize the
right ca a small scale. If, going down
| the road, we find a ruffian maltreatlng
a child, or q 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 to Weigh
about 20 tons, and the harder we punish
the villain the louder cur conscience ap-
plauGs US. In such case we do not keep
cur hands in our pockets, arguing that
if we interfere with the brute the brute
might think he would have right to
interfere with Us, and s. jeopardize the
Monroe doctrine The TACT is that that
persecution of the ArmeniaDs by the
Turks must be stopped, or God Al
mighty will curse all Ckristendom fo1
its damnable Indifference and apathy.
But the trumpet CT resurrection is about
to sound for Armenia.
American Sympathy.
DID I say in opening that on one Of
the peaks of Armenia, this very Anne
MA of which we speak, i'll 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 aft
er long storm of 20 days and 40 nights,
called the deluse, ard 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 cHe goes sailing not
over deluge cf water, but deluge o.
blood-the ark Of American sympathy
and that ark, landing on Ararat, from
its window shall fly the dove of kind
ness and peace to find the olive leaf Of
returning prosperity, while all the