The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-14

speak to very large extent from knowledge. It is work which appeals to every man, woman and child who has Christian heart. If we could know more of 1t and come to feel more of a responsibility as members of branches as of churches and of the Woman's Board, the larger I believe would be our gifts. not simply for the orphanage work but for all the wark which our missionaries are doing abroad. l will tell you something of the way in which these orphans came to me.
 l 4ell, really in speaking of this, that it is to you tWice-told tale, that you have heard about it from so many people and from so many sources that it really is an old story; but still, per-, haps an old story may be retold with benefit. I would like to speak of this orphanage work and to bring it home to you anew by telling you something of the actual conditions under which these people are IVl1Ig and the condi- tions which brought about this terri ble destitution among the children in Armenia
 I remember well the day I went down from Mrs. Barnum's pleasant home to transact some business that was re- maining over from the relief work, some business at the bank, and stood there talking with the director of the bank while the business was being transacted. We finished the work we had in hand and drew out a check for the remaining balance of the relief funds which I was sending back to Dr.
 Reynolds. l went out and did some er- rands and was going to do others, walking down the main street, when suddenly the whole poulation of the city were rushing with mad fury in one direction. Looking down the street we knew that the terrible deeds such as we had already seen in the heart of Armenia were beginning to be renew ed, we knew that massacre had com menced, that the terrible outbreak concerning which we had prophesied only few days before, Some day these streets will run with blood" was upon us and the blood had begun to flow. It swept over that city. We with all the rest, Mrs. Barnum and Miss Frazer, Miss Huntington and myself, about our usual peaceful pursuits, rushed to some shelter, wherever we could find it. and by the grace of God, were kept in safety through it. Then the next night as we were sitting in Mrs. Barnun1's parlor talking and chatting, there was a report of a rife, and then renewed report and still more reports followed. We tried to think it was this, that and the other, but our ears had heard the sound be- fore. Presently, on that beautiful even- ing in summer, we went up on the bal cony overlooking the streets and gar dens that sloped down to the Bosphor- us, and saw the Turkish rabble with clubs rifles, revolvers, cobble-stones, | whatever they could pick up, rushing | up and down. The alarm had been given that every Armenian house in I the quarter was to be sacked. Oh, those hours that we sat there in the | beautiful moonlight with every nerve strained to It's utmost tension. I stayed l there until the morning, when every 1 Armenian house had been sacked. The | breaking of glass, the cries of the peo- pie, the rustic of the refugees as they crept around about the house. even the
 moving of cat would make our hearts
 start to our mouths as we sat there in | terror, and with no defence but God. | These were some of the scenes in | Constantinople, but away back thous-
 and miles from there we had similar I and worse scenes. How we'll I re1nem- I Der the morning I awoke and came down from the peaceful retreat in the hills where had been resting from the 1 fatigue of relief work, to find the peo- l pie in a panic. They were rushing in
 to the missionary quarters for shelter Oh, the horrors of those days!
 | It was in this way that these chill dren were made orphans and this class | of orphans came to me. The people | were surrounded in their homes they
 were driven out from their houses as they were pursuing the usual vacations
 of their daily life. I remember one of
 our former school girls who came to me
 at this time. She was living in one of l the first quarters to be attacked. I said | to her, 'Tell me just how it happened and just what happened" It seemed
 incredible; it seemed as incredible as | the fact of war seems to us as we sit
 here to-day. Well" she said, "it was Monday morning. We were very busy my husband had engaged lot of work
 men to work in the vineyard and we
 rose very early. It was also my wash
 ing day and baking day and I had te l wash and bake and prepare food fol l these workmen and for my husband
 So I put on my very oldest clothes and
 had rolled up my sleeves for a hard
 days work. I had just sent out the | breakfast to the men in the vineyard
 and was preparing to get something
 for myself and my children when sud
 denly there was a shout and shriekine
 and an alarm given. I did not know
 what it was. I was in my kitchen l working. Then somebody rushed by and said, The Kurds are coming, they are killing us!' The men from the vine yard ran in and one of them was killed before he reached the house. My hus- l band shouted, Take the children, leave everything! Run for your lives! Sc
 we seized the children in our arms
 leaving everything we had in th'
 world all the money we had, all oul
 household goods, all our clothing ant all our food. We left the back dool open and the front door open and fled
 for our lives to the house of a Turk who