The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-11-22
PROF. ANDREWS ARRAIGNED
HIS UTTERANCES ON AFFAIRS IN
THE ORIENT DENOUNCED.

Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, ID. d., Says tho Head
of Brown University Has Dreamed "a
Dream and Asks How so Eminent II Man
Could Fall Into Jungle of Absurd
Falsehoods and Misrepresentation.
Boston, November 21.-The recent ut
terances of President E. Benjamin And
rews, Of Brown University, in Boston
and Chicago which has been widely re-
produced in the daily press and relig-
ious weeklies, have induced the Rev.
Cyrus Hamlin, d. D., to reply, with
special reference to what President
Andrews has said concerning affairs in
The Orient. DIR. Hamlin says
The distinguished character Of the
speaker, and some remarkable state
ments in the speech make it worthy of
careful criticism. My sixty years ac-
quaintance with the East, and my
thirty-five years residence there as an
educator, my close acquaintance with
Turks Armenians, Greeks and Bulgar-
ians; entering their houses, speaking
their languages, give me a right to
speak on some points which President
Andrews has treated specifically.
In the latter part of the address he
discusses ably the policy of England in
Europe and In Africa. We are shocked
by his bad taste in the introduction of
q profane and indecent ballad about
sending Gladstone to hell. Gladstone
has had life of great errors and great
hoe fp1y Si q
of every great question, but has finally
come round to the right. l have heard
him in his prime and do not wonder at
the honor that is paid to him in Eng
land. AS he has repented Of his sins
toward us let us forgive him. He has
touched the heart of the Christian and
civilized world by his eloquent defence
of the distressed, martyred Armenians
whom President Andrews evidently
despises. 1t may be that for that rea-
son he sends him to perdition but he
should do it with more decency of Ian
guage.
But what we are most interested in
is the result of his deep sea sounding,
Dropping the plummet deeper he
touches certain painful facts which he
Is bound to reveal to our expectant
minds. 1t Is fact that he has ascer-
tanned upon "diligent and extended
inquiry" And the amazing and pain
full fact is that no Mohammedans have
been converted to Christianity, while
most of us suppose that hundreds and
thousands hae been converted"
If there have been any conversions
the converts have Immediately disap-
peared; and there have been no reports
of any conversions in any missionary
or other publication, in any quarterly
or monthly or weekly or daily pubHca-
ton. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe stop
ped public execution, but it is still sure
death to Moslem in Turkey to say
openly that the gospels are superior to
the Koran.
AS no society has labored for any
such result, and as there has been no
such result, and as nobody has had any
such impression in this or any other
country, we are forced to believe that
the president has dreamed dream.
We do not say this lightly.
We come now to the learned presi-
dents estimate of the Turks and Ar
meniars: 1.-THE Turks are the nobler
and more moral race" AS the ruling
race wearing all the high official Co.'S
tunes and living upon the labor of five
millions of rajahs, Armenian, Greek and
Jewish. they naturally have that ap-
pearance Of superiority which leisure,
pride, wealth, station and conscious
power give. But what Of their, charac-
ter and course in history?
At the time President Andrews was
imbibing his notions of the higher no.
bility and morality of the Turks they
had slaughtered at least one hundred
thousand of their unarmed and peace
full Christian subjects, because they
would not deny their faith and profess
islam. They had destroyed 2,493 vii
lagos, forcibly converted 246 destroyed
563 Protestant and Gregorian churches,
changed 326 to mosques and destroyed
" monasteries and left in utmost want
and destitution $4,000, chiefly old men,
women and children, thousands Of wo-
men and girls outraged by the moral
Turks. The outrage Of women and
girls was too awful for even Lepsius to
describe. And this part was mainly
by the Turkish soldiery who reserved
it for themselves. If afterwards they
had killed the agonified victims without
torture and Internal sport their moral
ity would have been less Satanic.
How is it that a man so eminent
should unsuspectingly fall into such a
jungle of absurd falsehoods and misap-
presensions. He has furnished us the
key. "He conversed with several gen.
tlemen who knew both the Turks and
Armenians perfectly we'll"
The sultan has an immense secret
service like the Third Circle Of the
Imperial Chancery" so wonderfully re-
vealed to us by the "Revue de Deux
Mondes'' many years ago. That these
gentlemen are in the pay of the sultan
there can be little doubt. They all
teach one and the same lesson. 1t is
just what we have learned from the
good president and which we have
shown to be utterly untruthful.