Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-15

nominations are unit in seeking to
arouse the world to the enormity of
the tragedy in Turkey, which is al
ready estimated to have cost one-half
million lives. The relief committee
in New York has in its membership
DR.. John Il. Mott, chairman of the
continuation committee of the Edin-
burgh Conference, the most important
representative position in the Prot
cstant world. Persons who know DR..
Motifs conservatism and his reluctance
to commit his worldwide organization
to any position appreciate the sig
nificance of his championship of the
cause of the Christians in Asia.
Because Roman Catholic Christians
in Turkey are being slaughtered, along
with Gregorians and Greeks and Prot
estaGtS. the whole round circle of the
worlds churches is now involved, re-
sardless Of ecclesiastical divisions.
Hitherto France has been able to pro-
tect the Catholics in Turkey, and Rus
sia the members of the Greek Church.
Now all Christians suffer alike, and
all churches make common cause. The
blood of the present-day martNrs is
cementing together divided Chris
tendon. What the consequences may
be in years to come in the way OF
Christian union no man can foresee.
The fact that this saturnalia of lust
prosecutions unnamable. is taking
place in the land of the ancient
apostles. saints and martyrs strength
ems the appeal to all Christians. These
Christians are dying where Christians
died eighteen and nineteen hundred
years ago. The sentimental appeal of
the present crisis is tremendous.
The Case of the Jews
Equally dramatic is the appeal to
the Jews, for these deported AR
menians are dying in the very route
of the ancient Hebrew eXiles, and their
destination is the same-eXcept that
under Sennacherib and Nebuchadnez-
gar Assyria and Babylonia were fer
tile, we'll governed lands. Now they
are a desert. The EupL rates river,
the river" of the Old Testament is
running red and fouled nowadays with
the blood and bodies of the victims of
Moslem fanaticism.
Nor are the Jews themselves escap-
ing The Young Turk program is to
eXterminate first the Armenians and
then the Jews. Already many Zionists
have been slain. Nobody knows the
fate of the small Jewish communities
all UP and down the Tgris- -Euphrates
Valley. Thousands of the suffering
Jews from Jerusalem and other parts
Of Palestine have been taken to Alex
andria by United States warships
Moses delivered the Hebrews from
Egypt: America delivers them to
Egypt.
In the movement for relief for suf-
ferers in the Holy Land the Jews have
been foremost; and they are repre-
sented on the New York Armenian
Atrocities Committee. The blood of
the martyrs is proving to be the seed
OF new tolerance and cooperation.
Even before these words get into
print there may he startling develop
ments. especially in the way of attacks
upon America. 4 bitter anti American
wave is sweeping among the Turkisl,
officials. for they cannot do the deeds
that are daily staining their hands and
still remain friends with the United
States.
They will have still more reason to
fear American Indignation when the
news of what is now being said in
Christian gatherings gets back to the
seat of the holy war'-a war whose
holiness is proved by the slaughter
of children, the outraging of women
and girls and the torture Of the best
people in the Ottoman empire.