The record-union., 1898-12-06
Thousands Of the Rising Youth Trained and
Educated at Roberts College.
The American School Founded Over
Thirty Years Ago in the Sui
tan's Empire To-Day the Chief
Hope OF the Future OF the Mill
ions Who Inhabit His Domin-
ion.

LONDON, Nov. 24.-Writing under
date of November 18th from Constanti-
nople, William T.. Stead says:
Judging by results, the Spanish war
has made mighty little return from
prodigious expenditure, compared with
the returns already realized and to be
realized from the peaceful campaign
which America is waging in the Otto
man Empire. By an expenditure Of
hundreds of millions of dollars and the
sacrifice of over 1900 men the United
States has succeeded in ousting the
moribund sovereignty of Spain from a
couple of islands near her own shores,
and of raising a question as to her
continued dominion in the Philippines.
The results achieved by the infliction
of hideous suffering upon the unfortu-
nate ISLANDERS whose relief was the
main object of the war, small though
they be, represent probably the best
and quickest dividend ever earned by
modern war
Compare this result with those
achieved by the Americans who for the
last thirty years have been patiently,
silently laboring for the regeneration
of that vast compost of wrecked king
doms, principalities and nationalists,
called the Ottoman Empire.
Thirty years ago a couple of Amer
leans, Christian men, with heads on
their shoulders, settled in Turkey and
set about teaching on American meth
DDS the rising youth of the East in an
Institution called the Robert College.
They have never from that day to this
had at their command a greater in
come than thirty or forty thousand dol
lars year. They have taken no hand
in politics. They have abstained from
identifying themselves with any sect,
nationality or party They have stuck
to their appointed task, and they are
still sticking to it. They have insist
ed that every student within their walls
shall be thoroughly trained on the
American principles, which since they
were imported by the men of the May
hover have we'll nigh made the tone Of
the world
They taught all these students five
languages, but they never hesitated to
proclaim that, though they spoke with
all the tongues under heaven, it was
but foolishness unless the moral and
spiritual character of the student was
trained and nodded by religious men.
Moral development, spiritual discipline.
is the most essential part of education.
The true object Of college education is
the development of the faculties and
the formation of character That was
their line, and they have stuck to it
now for thirty-four years.
with what result? That the Amer
lean college is to-day the chief hope of
the future of the millions who inhabit
the Sultan's dominions. They have
40 students in the college to-day. but
they have trained and sent out into the
world thousands of bright, brairy
young fellows who have carried the
leaven of the American town meeting
into all the provinces Of the Ottoman
Empire
Robert College men are turning up
everywhere. If the good work goes
on, the alumni Of this institution will
be able to supply the personnel of the
civilized administration which must
some day supersede the barbaric hor-
ror that is at present misnamed the
Government of Turkey.
THE one great thing done in the
making of States in the last quarter
Bulgarian principality. But the Bull
garian principality. the resurrection of
the Bulgarian nationality, although
materially achieved by the sword of
the liberating and avenging hordes of
Russia, was due primarily to the Rob-
ert College. 1t was the Americans who
sowed the seed. 1t was the men of
Robert College who took into Bulgaria
the glad news of good time coming,
when Bulgaria would be free. When
the Turks, scared by the propaganda
of liberty. descended in savage wrath
upon the helpless. people with sword
and flame and worse than bestial lusts.
to eradicate the new born national as
pirations, it was the Americans who
brought the whole horrible truth to the
light of day.
Mr.. Disraeli, then Premier of Eng
land, lied about it in his place in Par
lament, not even scrupling to falsify
dispatches and betray the confidence
of his country in order to shield the
Turk. All was in vain. Robert Col
lege men were on the spot Their chief
was in constant communication with
the ambassadors and Journalists Of
Constantinople. They found in Mr.
Pears, an English barrister of high
standing, correspondent of the Daily
News a man fearless and capable
enough to stand the brunt of making
the awful exposure What followed is
a matter of history.
THE revelation of the truth about |
the Bulgarian massacres shattered as
by dynamite the traditional policy of |
England. Mr.. Gladstone sprang into
the field. The Russian people, moved |
to their depths by the stories of the
sufferings of their brethren. could not |
be restrained. The Czar liberator car
ried the Russian arms in triumph to the |
very gates of Stamboul Nor did they
return till, by the treaty Of San Ste
fano, they had treated with that Bull |
garian principality which had been
dreamed out on the astral plane by the |
students of the American college.
When the Russian army of liberia |
ton returned home after the peace was |
signed they passed down the Bosphorus, |
and as each huge transport, crowded |
with the war worn veterans of the |
Balkan battlefields, steamed past the |
picturesque Crag of Roumelisusai, on /
which Robert College sits enthroned, /
they one and all did homage to the in
stitution which had made Bulgaria pos
sible, by cheering Justify and causing |
the military bands to play American /
airs. 1t was the tribute of the artiicer
in blood and iron to the architects on |
whose designs they had bu:lded the |
Bulgarian Stale