The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-17


| Attendance.
The little wooded knoll just back Of
Brooks Brothers saw mill at Merriam
park is the scene of the annual camp
| meeting of the German Methodist Episco-
pal churches of the Twin Cities A half
thousand people visited the grounds yes
terday, services being held morning, aft
ernoon and evening. Evangelistic adj
dresses were delivered by half dozen
we'll known divines OF the faith, and spe-
cial music was given by a chorus.
Services were conducted in a large cir
cular tent with a seating capacity of sew
eral hundred, and this was crowded all
day. The meeting will continue until
Wednesday night. Many of the proml-
nent church workers are spending all
their time on the grounds, and around
the auditorium tent there is a small
tented city, including twenty or more
canvas structures.
The feature of yesterdays meeting was
an address by DR.. Bascom, Of CONSTANT
nople, native Armenian, who graph
| icaiiy described the atrocities which are
continually perpetrated in Armenia de-
| spite the reform which was supposed to
| have been instituted in this direction.
| The speaker has a brother and a sister
| still in the country that he is trying to
| rescue. His father and two brothers fell
victims to the knife of the butchering
| Turk He had all the characteristics of
| a son of the Orient, and quite won the
| approval of the audience. He received
| after his lecture many donations to as
| sist him in carrying on his work in this
country, that OF exciting human interest
/ among the Americans in the conditions
which exist in his native land.
England can do nothing alone" said
! DR.. .Bascon, but America and England
together could take a stand that would
put a termination to the persecution and
| butchery of the Armenians by the fol-
lowers of Mahomet. Today the vandal-
ism of the Turk is fully as great as it
was when the subject was stirring Eng
land and America. Instead of making
| great publicity of their actions, they Kill
| off whole congregations, and the outside
world knows nothing of it. It never gets
| into the papers, and the Turks exercise
| a strict censorship on all printed matter
that goes out of the country. The meth
| cd of procedure Is to approach the min
lister and ask him to espouse their faith
and with it the following of the entire
congregation. OF course he refuses.
Every Armenian holds too dear his faith
to be intimidated by the burly soldiers
of the sultan They would rather die
first than to give up their faith in Christ.
The congregation, and when l say that
mean a little band, is killed-butchered-
their women outraged, and the men tor
tured in unspeakable ways.
| 1.-THE Turks are no respecters of sex,
| age or condition, but foully murder all
| alike, for it is sacred murder in the eyes
! of their religion. was thrown into jail
and remained thirty-two days. My
| father was a wealthy carpet manufac-
turer His goods were seized and con-
fiscated, and he was killed with two of
my brothers. Another brother escaped
and is now living in America. escaped
| from prison and came to this country,
and have been studying at Johns Hopkins
| university for over a year. l received
! news but few days ago of fresh mas
sacre near my old home, and this is only
one instance of what is a regular thing
| in Armenia. But 1t does not get into the
newspapers. The world is In Ignorance