The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-13
Sunday Set Aside to
Ask Aid for
Martyrs
list OF VICTIMS
NUMBER MILLION
~ Denominations Will
Be Represented in
Movement
~ TIE RELIGIOUS RAMBLER

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Convinced that all roads TO the
~ deliverance OF the Armenian Chris
tians are closed except the one that
passes through the throne OF
heaven. the Federal Council OF the
f Churches of Christ in America has
4 issued call "to me churches OF
America" to observe tomorrow
n November IA, as a day OF common
4 prayer for the prosecuted Armen-
tans.
This appeal is one OF the most
tangible evidences OF the mounting
Z interest OF American Christians in
the incredible sufferings OF their
-brethren in the Ottoman empire
4 For the Federal Council officially
+ represents practically all American
4 rfctestantism.
Heretofore the authorities ON the
\. Xfmenian atrocities have set the
\ amber OF slain and doomed, out
& qide4 Of the men killed In the army,
e approximately half million.
EDome have said that the total had
eoached 100000. Even so, II justi-
He'd the words of the National Ar
Qsnian Atrocities committee. New
York. Of which DIR. James Ia Bar
ten IL chairman, Professor Samuel
II Dutton. secretary and Charles
~ Crane. treasurer. TO the effect
1that:
The world is Witnessing today
~ Turkey and just beginning to
|1onprehend what viii appear in
Aotofy - the greatest, most pathe-
~ and most arbitrary tragedy in
A1et0ry. An entire race, and that
TO ono Of the Oldest and most hon.
liable, 10 undergoing process or
dissemination that for complete
nnns Of design and cruelty of execu-
1tiOn surpasses anything that ever
preceded It In Turkey or In any
!nther country. Although this work
yof destruction began more than six
months ago. II did not reach the
height OF its furry until July and
August. and. owing to the close cen
Worship of the press, the world is
only now learning the facts from
rye witnesses and from official doc
{unents. IL Is now unquestionably
established that the plan includes
The extinction of all the Armen-
Hans and probably of other Chris
titan races throughout all of Turkey
\ The highest Turkish official at Con
Eolantinople declares TO representa-.
zxlves of foreign governments that
tnfs is their purpose, and the local
offcials in the provinces openly
5pf0claim that such are their per,
o1nptory orders from the capital
Now this official, conservative
committee is out with a statement
E0oubling the estimate OF casualties
&4 follows: 1T is impossible to
se0timate how many have already
& Derished. A careful survey in the
IVAN vilayet gathered the names OF
900 persons who had been killed
<0thers were able TO escape by flight
I4 Persia and Russia. An eye wit
kn4ss who has recently made an ex-
xeuded journey across Asia Minor
k1{W over $4,000 poor, daZed, help
[G9s, starving refugees camped by
IA roadside in a region almos,
escrt with no provision for their
ood supply. Probably il Is not an
yef-estimate to say that 100000
u the possible 100000 Armenions
y Turkey at the beginning of IN,
or are either dead, or in Moslen
nrems. or forced TO profess Mo
11nedanism or are on their SAD
1oSney TO the desert and death.
n staggering task confronted the
- IN America who were FRS
oode aware Of the horrors happen
NJ IN Turkey How TO arouse s
1rAcalloused, blood.weary world
sick at heart from piled up aw
1)uess that its overweight ner
~ Nailed to react to new frightful
~, to the enormity Of this crime
al crimes In history that its hoi
Migration would be straightwa,
oftd out upon the perpetrators
S1aps thus forcing them to sbate
olr crimes. was a problem of first
Tnitude. The daily newspapers
ishcd stories after stories OF
n1ties. The religious press took
Ne tale. II began TO be repeat.
n all sorts OF religious gather
~ tomorrow. In innumerable
<<es the tales viii be retoId
rupsrcd with the lesser mar.
Crns OF Christian history, 10
The peoples prayers of inter.
616tttoe. mass meetings will