The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-05
ARCHD2ACON DANIELSPEAKS
INTERESTING NATIVE OF KUR-
 DISTAN LECTURES HERE

At the Italian Baptist Church on State
 Street, This Evcning---RObed in Kur-
 distan---An American Citizen--Great
 Linguist-Lectures Tomorrow and
 Sunday.
 Archdeacon M. George Daniel is of the Thomas Christian cathedral at Matah-Mar Ziya, where the natives still speak the modern dialect of the language in which Jesus spoke.
 Dr. Daniel is lecturing in the inter- ests. of the Thomas Christians. lie is just returned from a visit to Fefsla' where he was deprived of his home and ancestral property to the value of $3O00 by the order of the blshop ol the orthodox Russian church, who regafas the Thomas Christians as heretlcs. " hile returning to America MT. Danlel was three times robbed by brl8ands, on the border. Arriving at EreVan, near Mt. Ararat, as there was Iartar rev olution, he was forwarded With troops, because he is now an American citizen,
 M. Daniel lectured on Sunday on the needs of his church at the swedish Lutheran church on Satate street. This evening he speaks at the Italian Bap- tist church on George street, to-mor- row evening at the Swedish Baptist church on Williams street, Sunday he lectures at two Lutheran churches. He gees to Washington soon to see about the rescue of his property. He has many interesting testimonials, certiti- cates etc, from prominent men in | Asia Minor, Europe and America, in all sorts of languages and characters. M, | Daniel is a proficient linguist speaking many Semitic tongues, and among the European languages English, German, swedish, Russian, French and others, He is a scholar, a cultivated gentleman | and d man of such varied experience that his lectures are of great interest. He lives in Chicago where he is mis- sionary to several hundred young Per sians of the Thomas churcp, residing l there and in Milwaukee.
 The St. Paul Globe says in part of a lecture by him:
 An interesting address was delivered at the Church of the Good Shepherd by Ven. Archdeacon Marcus Daniel of Kurdestan, Asiatic Turkey.
 MT. Daniel was actively engaged ir missionary work in Turkey at the time of the late Armendlan massacres, ir the slaughter at Lake Van he was shot in the knee and crippled for life,
 Mir Daniel says;
 "At least half of the Turks live by thunder and crime, High officials o church and stata are supported chiefly iby robber bands The sultan's 960 wives are sustained by booty.
 Murder and plunder is commonplace If a murderer be caught his freedom can be bought for a nominal sum.
 "The Mohammedans believe that Got can only be reached through Moham ed. To kill Christian Is a sure pass port to heaven, which is naturally
 bad thing for the health of the neigh boring Christian. To be killed by
 Christian is also an easy way to get | heaven. Their whole religion is dis . play When gathering at market place they pray with the apparent intentio of making a noise. The life of tn Turkish women is painfully abject."
 Mr. Daniel closed his talk with a appeal for help in his work. He is rare man, an Assyrian by birth, an highly educated in Persia, Russia an London. He has translated the Bib
 into the Kurdish language.