The farmer and mechanic., 1912-11-12

IFlbQted talk concerning the getting
tosvfneF on common bass Or al
these churches thar there hAS been
since the Reformation Al uuvxft
tinS'y. the war II. Turkey u4y p4o-
mote the Peace ani uutt. q: th~a~s..7-
dom.
The Peril Of Christians
XII who know TuTkc> say tn.t III,
soNernment- defeat hy the allied
troops has put The knife 10 the thro..t-
Of GhristIaEs All over ths- Wide ara
q the Ottoman empire That j. .h,
he powers have rushed warship~ -
ihe Turkish waters. The Moslern Is aa
elemental being. a ,hl!d OF the desert
lis faith is keyed 10 the primitive lifs.
aUid which II vas born Arab trait.
still dominate il. Ana the first arga
ment OF the Eedos4in Is blow islam
began lis sway b slaughter and il has
continued - rule by the sword
When the news OF the disaster 10
! the armies cf the Sultan, who is AIS,
Caliph, or Commander of The
Faithful, percdlates into the remote
communities OF Turkey the IN
travelled person has little idea OF how
remote most OF Turkey is-there vii.
be 4 sudden accession OF fanatical
fury, and the cry XIII the Chris
tians" will once more arise. as so Of
,
hearts OF men. women and children
Vengeance for the victories OF the
Christian soldiers vii, be vented upon
| the defenSeless Christians scattered np
and down the land
There are Greek and Roman Catho-
lie monaSterieS scattered all over the
Bible lands-and the Bible lands are
in Turkey. These are almost helpless
| in the face OF the naddened Mos!em
/ yyO11, Nf1 i,z.S D. "a.
| many great church editices, the nat
ura1 place Of resort OF their members
| in times Of danger. Occasionally these
are prepared for siege, like the build
/ inGS on the Mount Of olives. Ordina-
| rily il is as it was four years age at
Adana and Tarsus where the Chris
tianS We're herded into the churches
/ and slain.
The Plight of the Armesians
on in Asia Minor, out OF the reach
/ OF the guns Of warships. are the cen
| ters Of Armenian population. These
have been the scene Of many cf The
worst Of the Moslem maSSaCres. The
kurds are even more bloodthirstY
than the Turks. The tales that are
told to this day by survivors make
ones blood run cold. The iiendish IN
genuity of Moslem fanaticisn bent on
the murder of Christians is unprinta-
ble in English speech. Almost sys-
tematically, one might say, Turkish
harems are recruited from the unveil
ed Armenian girls and women III time
| Of massacre. Down MOsul and Lag
dad way even the Christian and Jew
ish women wear Wells upon the street
that they may not be marked down
by human wolves for subsequent cap
ture.
Now the Armenian Christians have
/ tn eel 4,
murder of a Roman Catholic or a
| Greek Catholic or d Protestant Is like
iy to create international c0mpltca
Uons But the killing Of Armenilns
Or Chaldeans or SyrianS stlrS no po
litical power to action. These are peo
pie without a country since they ey
pect nothing from the ottoman gov
ernment. So it has come 10 pass that
the Armenian communities have arm
} ed themselves, and have made plans
, for the eyer-possible massacre. We
may expect to hear tales of heroic re
sistance if the anti Christian storm
breaks as expected
!, Danger Threatens the Missionaries.
| Most of the missionaries in Tu.ke,
are Americans. These represent III
American Board OF Foreign MiSsio rs
, which mas stations scattered over ths
whole empire. except Syria and Ara
: hia. The Northern Presbyterian church
has missions in the Holy Land. and
the Dutch Reformed church. togetheI
5 with the University OF Michigan, have
: missions in Arabia. especially in tn.
; neighborhood Of the Persian Gulf.
British missionaries are mosti]
Scotch. and the Church Mission Soci
, ETY.. A great diversity Of religious or
3 CARNATIONS center at JerlLsaIe
3 There are communities of Jews II
{ almost every Turkish city and town
: as we'll as in remote villages dow
!, the Tigris valley. These Will snar'
almost equally with the Christians tn
), fury OF the Moslems
: A few days ago the American fs",tr'
6 had word that all its workers ar
f safe and going about theic .ork =
e usual. unaffrighted. ord,narilT f~si
4 of foreign intervention protects N
n European. Al present. n@ '24n =
s tell what q day may bring forth, a.
: the missionaries are most nf ta-Ia Fl
u beyond the reach of the Gunoa3-~
q In this hour Of trial trH = O..