The San Francisco call., 1897-03-01
DR.. He mphill on the Bonn
bardment of the
Greeks.
Strong Words of the Pastor OF
Calvary Presbyterian
Church.
So.Called Christian Nations Termed
Pagan and Bar barian-Con.
gregation E ectrifej.

DR.. Hemphill OF Calvary Presbyterian
Church poured hot shot into the Euro
pean powers for their efforts to prevent
Greece from occupying Crete in his SER
mon yesterday morning.
The announced topic, "a Noteworthy
Example of Chris's Cleansing Power"
gave little intimation of what was to
come, and the congre cation was electrified
when the pastor arraigned the nations in
no measured terms for interfering with
the Greeks. He termed them "puny,
pagan, barbarian powers OF Europe" and
called upon the Lord to stay the slaughter
of Christians by the "unspeakable Turk"
'sThey are having troublous times over
there in Europe at present, he said, land
the trouble is not ended. 1t is only be-
gun. A trouble is never ended until 1t IS
ended right. The great powers OF Europe
think they have ended it by turning their
great guns on little Greece. God bless lit
tie Greece! May she make for herself
new Thermopyla! The great powers
have not ended the trouble. They have
OF the world is greater than the greatest
guns of the great powers, and the Chris
tian sentiment of the world is against the
Turk.
1.-THE Turk is unspeakable. The Turk
is fanatical in his hatred OF all Christians
of every name. The Turk is lustful
beast, The Turk is bloody butcher. The
Turk is moral leper.
1.-The Christian powers? The civilized
powers2 The great powers? No; the puny,
pagan, barbarian powers. Why do call
them so? Because for half entury and
more they have aid ed and abetted, and are
still aiding and abetiing, the atrocious Turk
in his bloody butcheries, Within the
memory of some here the Turk has butch
cred 30, ,0OO Greek Christians, 10, 600 Nesto-
ran Christians, II, 600 Maronite and Sy-
rian Christians and $4,000 Bulgarian
Christians. And within two years he has
butchered $4,000 Armenian Christians,
mostly men, leaving more than 300, 600
women ana children, mostly girls. to die
o: disease and starvation. or become the
slaves of Turkish lust and rapacity. And
the great Christian, civil Zed powers of
Europe? No: the puny, pagan, barba-
rian powers of Europe watch the bloody
butcheries and do nothing. And they do
nothing in the interests of peace, they say.
''It is a great, dreadful lie. 1t is not in
the interests of peace, but in the interests
of their pockets. Turkey is a bankrupt
nation; me great powers are the credit
ors, and if Turkey were dism ,mbered the
creditor nations would suffer loss. Their
present do-nothing policy is in the inter
esls of greed, and not in the interests of
peace. Have the great powers of Europe
Deen so fond of peace in the past that they
should now cry peace at any price,?
Peace! 1t is false peace. 1t is saying
peace, peace, when there is no peace.
Sometimes the best and only way to
peace is through blood-red war. War is a
great evil, but there are worse things even
than war. The present iniquitous peace
in Europe is worse; and there never will
be peace in Europe until the leprous Turk
is driven out of il. Well, my comfort and
faith and hope and prayer is that what
the so-called Christian nations cannot
or will not do, Jesus Christ. the King OF
nations, will do. He can cure the iepro-
sizes that aff1ict the body polite jnst as
easily as he cured the leprosy that afflicted
the body of the man whose case we have
been considering this morning, just as
easily as he can cure the leprosy of sin
tnat affilcts your soul and mine.
he has yet to reckon with the Turk
Tor all the Christian blood he has she'd
he has yet to reckon with the Christian
nations OF Europe for letting ii be shed.
how long, 0 Lord, how long? Why
tarry. the wheels of thy chariot? Make
speed to save thy slaughtered people, for
tnelr salvation comes not from the ma
tons OF Europe who call themse by
thy name"