Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-06-03
HEROES IN TURKEY

Humanity instinetively pays tribute
to the hero. When Lieutenant shack
Teton comes ncare to the south pole
than any other explorer. when Dr..
Grenfell fights death in three forms
on the lee flocs OF Labrador, when a
railroad engineer saves the lives Of
his passengers at the risk of his own.
or a fireman plunges into a burning
building regardless of consequences -
himself, all the world %applauds, and
Justly. \ modern writer says that
Paul's heroisms have done more %
.populari2e him than his theology Per-
.haps the stories of splendid courage
that are coming to us just now from
Paul's old home in Tarsus, and the
|~ncighboring region, may p%opulari2,
the work of foreign missions.
Letters from representatives of the
American board in Turkey, giving de
tails of the recent massaCres in Adana
and elsewhere are full of thrilling III
cidents of personal bravery, Or. r
u. Christie. who is at the head Of st
Paul's institute in Tarsus, served in
our Civil wal and was hit three times
IN battle. He was with sherman on
his march to the sea, ana we should
expect tina sort of man to be frs
and foremost in risking his life e
stop the horrible slaughter Of Armc
mans. He wrote on a postal care
April is. 1900 homeless people II
house and yard. | have hardly tim
to eat And again: "As the train
ON which | was riding moved throug
the vineyards and gardens this side .
Adana they reminded me of Shiloh
of Corinth. Of VicksburS. of Atlanta
In the long street leading up from
the station | counted M quarter 0
a mile over thirty bodies that had no
ryct been removed" His son-in-lav
Rcv NJ. Miner Rogers. was PREACHER
ously shot while trying to rescu
womcn and children from a burnin
building. Another missionary, Rev. w
y. Chambers. rushed into the mids
Of the infuriatcJ mol ana threw hi
arms around an Armenian prcache
whom they had seized.
Mr.. Chambers said. THE ruffian
were pulling him one way and | wa
pulling him another. They hit hin
On the head. He called on me to say
nlill .ifu NtItbIutN III pam
[ looked down In time to see a Turf
withdraw a long, crooked dagger iron
H%ogavim's side Just then a rifle wa
discharged It us ana he dropped iron
my arms to the ground
Instead OF collapsing ut the sigh
his plucky soldier of Christ manage
70 get 4 detachment Of soldiers from
he government, and marched witt
hem through the town placing guard
N different places. He said that Il
| vas "A rio and exciting business
iShorting the crowd to dcsist fror
further slaughter and destruction
forcing them back with fixed bay
oncts. and firing over their heads K
scatter them"
He also sheltered from 1900 q
1000 refugees on his own premises
md rendered valuable service TO ia
British ~vice-consul, Major Doughty
Wylic. in relief measures. sim an
,ther American. Rev. W. w. Poet, ha
been chosen chairman OF the interna
ional relief committee.
1t is men of this caliber who are
ioing more to bring order out of chao
n Turkey. and to establish that dis
ractod country on a constitutions
1asis, than all the navics of Europ'
md America put together YANKEE
| leroism, plus Christian devotion to {
yreat ideal. has been nobly illustrat
ID in the land Of the sultan IN thcs,
net faur mpYIg