The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-01-25

earthquake, and Michigan nres, anu
Russian famine? 1t was comparative.
lyof little Importance that the Ger
man 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
eternity can dim. Born in Massa-
chusetts village. she came In her girl
hood 10 this city To serve our govern
ment in the patent Office. but after
ward went forth from the doors OF
that patent Office with 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 Barton!
! Just as I expected, she lifts the
banner of the Red Cross Turkey
and all nations are pledged to re-
spect and defend that Red Cross, al
though that color of cross does not, in
the opinion of many, stand for Chris
tianity. In my opinion it does stand
for Christianity, for was not the cross
under which most of us worshiped red
with the blood of the Son of God, red
with the best blood that was ever shed,
red with the blood poured out for the
ransom of the world? Then lead on,
oh, Red Gross. and let Clara Barton
carry IT, The Turkish government is
bound to protect her, and the chariots
of God are 10000, and their charioteers
are angels of deliverance, and they
would all ride down at once TO roll
over and trample under the hoofs
of their white horses any OF
her assailants- May the $500. 900 she
seeks be laid at her feet! Then may
the ships that carry her across Allan
tic and Mediterranean seas be guided
safely by Him who trod into sapphire
pavement bestormed Galilee. Upon
soil incardined with martyrdom let the
Red Cross be planted. until every de-
molished village shall be rebuilded,
and every pang of hunger be fed, and
every wound Of cruelty be healed, and
Armenia stand with as much liberty
10 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 Hugenots, are free 10 wor-
snip the Christ who came to set all ma
tions free.
II has been said that II we go over
there 70 interfere on another con-
tinent, that will imply the right for
other nations to interfere with affairs
on this continent, and SO the Monroe
doctrine be jeopardized. No, no! Pres
ident Cleveland expressed the senti-
mcnt of every intelligent and patriotic
American when he Numbered from
the White House warning TO
all nations, that there Is not one
acre or one inch more of ground
on this continent for any trans
atlantic government TO occupy. And
by that doctrine we stand now and
shall forever stand. But there is q
doctrine as much higher than the Mon
roe 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
shepherds. Wherever there is wound
1t is our duty, whether as individuals or
as nations, to balsam It. Wherever
il is our duty to ward off the blade.
Wherever men are prosecuted for their
religion it is our duty to break that
arm of power, whether it be thrust
forth from Protestant church or a
Catholic cathedral, or Jewish syna-
gogue or a mosque of Islam. We all
recognize the right on small
scale. II going down the road,
we find ruffian maltreating a
child, or a human brute insulting
q woman, we take a hand in the con-
test IL we are not towards, and, though
we be slight in personal presence. be-
cause Of our indignation we come to
weigh about 90 tons, and the harder
we punish the villain the louder our
conscience applauds us. In such case
we do not keep our hands in our pock-
cts, arguing that il we interfere with
the brute the brute might think he
would have n right to interfere with
US, and so jeopardize the Monroe doc
trine.
The fact is tina. that persecution of
the Armenians by the Turks must be
stopped, or God Almighty will curse
all Christcndom for its damnable in
difference and apathy. But the
trumpet of resurrection is about to
sound for Armenia. Did say in open
ing that on one of the peaks of Ar
menia, this very Armenia 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 know, and that
it was after long storm of 40 DAYS
and 40 nights, called the Deluqe, and |
that afterward dove went forth from |
that ark and returned 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 SYM
pathy-and that ark, landing on Ara
rat, from its window shall fly the dove
of kindness and peace, to find the olive
leaf of returning prosperity, while all
the mountains of Moslem preiudice |