New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-07
AMERICA CAN STOP 1T.
SAYS DIR. CHRISTENSEN.
Preacher Calls for Action on Mahom-
etaH atrocities.

The Rev. DIT. q. A Christensen. pastor Of
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church. Riverdale.
preached yesterday the need of American
interference to stop the Turkish atrocities in
Macedonia. He declared that other nations
would not 90 it. owing TO seIfshness. and that
1T was the duty of the United States. in keeping
with its present prominence and weight in ques-
tons affecting world interests. to take steps to
bring TO an end the massacres Of Christians in
stisated by Mahometan fanaticism The SER
as follows:
The sar ar conquest Involving the wonderful
the marvels OF history So FAR as we car unSer-
stand 1t, We shall better appreciate the alarming
SouthsTn Europe to-day. II was in this territory
that 81 Paul sowed the seed from which have
sprung the fruits OF law. of liberty and religion
which make UP the truest greatness of modern Eu-
that the Arabs burst forth from their deserts.
sword IN hand. 10 cnange the faith and culture OF
Mahomet was child OF fortune" with faith
had taught before him IN times when men we're not
prepared 70 listen for the want of common
southern clans had seized Medina and the sRreeT
men VINO controlled Mahomet turned TO good ac-
count his alleged revelations and made them a
rallying cry for the marauding Bedouin.
by internal discussion and reekins with shameful
corruption. It bowed before the men Of the desert
YEARS when the Arabs conquered nearly all the
aries had b which tae Latin legion
striking. but not less natural. the success OF
quarrels of ecclesastics who had almost forgotten
Cna1 mere was God in their prohtless strfes con-
Aiexandrla and Byzantium served only to puzzle
creed. There IS no God but Allah. and MahOHet
Without compulsion or persecution Islam would
fo per S9ag people } so well ,g
only TO confuse them Freely aSnoitfine fbis If fS
none the less true that the cardinal principles
Of the Kora 3 sbf AGAINST 4s Of the the uh P5
levers until the true religion stands alone upon
ten thousand theological students repeat daily in
refuge at with fdr 2 En' as satss the
cursed In the name Of Allah. the Compassionate.
Destroy the inidels and polythests thine enemies.
ebSrsn o5 the Tegi9n Aahi Make their
th teet TO slip; give them and their families.
ana their relations by marrage their brothers and
Lord Of all Creaturesr'
If it be retorted that tho Christian Church is
and that Christian bishops and kings have sung
eenswer Is that the crimson Of the Churchs blush
Crimes but that WHICH is av6 GI nS Ga eS
with Christianity is the deliberate method and
against an unbeliever is n sure passport to the
senSqous delights of the Mahometan paradise.
manity or acknowledges his shame. Rather does he
Il Will strip and starve and beat my wives II
Ike satd the Governor OF Erzeroum to the for
1t is none Of your business"
nat q vile Is to husband. that the Armenian
Is 70 Ihe TURK and the Turk will brook no inter-
II will be well for Us to recall the words Of NJ.
Gladstone concerning the atrocities in Bulgaria in
There is not a criminal in European fail. there
Is not cannibal in the South Sea Islands, whose
indisnation would not rise and overboil at the re-
late been examined, but which remains unavenged
which has left behind all the foul and all the
fierce passions that produced it. and which may
agaIn spring up in another murderous harvest
the air tainted with every imaginable deed Of
crime and shame. That such things should be done
race which did them; that a door Should be left
Despite these ringing words OF her great premier.
the Armenian massacres less than twenty Years
after, and the ominOus outlook in Macedonia to-
too greedy Of her commerce and too busy in Egypt
and the TransyaaL Why has not Germany closed
guard upon Alsace and Lorraine. Why does not
''open door in China will not make up for the loss
of all hope of acquiring seaport the Mediter-
ranean. Why do not all OF these nations combine
TO close it? Becauseand the tritest explanation s
the truest-because they fear to disturb the bal
ance OF power and could never agree about the
division OF the spoils 49, g. -. -,
ser,-atie T r3ebt i5ttSI C,,5tinr 20 re
millions of Slavs who inhabt control the many
the Turk would be gigantic federal State. stretch
ing from the Bosporus to the Danube. from the
power in territory ruled by MahOmetans. and
serving. at the same time as an eHectual barrier
II such condition be feasible well as idea.
about? Is the cry from Macedonia which St Paul
heard In the first century 70 be repeated 10 Amer
deed We shall be II We heed that call, 1t must be
left TO statesmen-nOt TO preachers-to show how
America put quietus upon the Turkish out
RACES: but a minister of the Gospel may least
possibiiity is no more deuson than u was the
vision Of st. Paul And if we to do It. we must
has passed. and every great nation must be self
centred