The Washington herald., 1915-12-12
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the choice Of Katholikos. when the
office Is vacant by death. and His Beau
utude, guarding as a sacred relic the
night hand n.a, Of st has his
seized in the first third of the eighteenth
century.
America to the Rescue.
Although the mass Of Armenians re-
main unchangingly loyal to the old
church, there is a Roman Catholic and
the race with the spirit and learning of
the West. The Catholic missionaries
have been longest on the ground and
have more missions. which have been in
the feld the better part of q century.
hold q special interest for Americans.
For they were established and are con-
Quoted and supported by Americans.
sste. Is true that many in, in the United
scornful because there are not more
converts to show for all the money and
labor expended in Turkish missions. For
esrmpls there are not n mere or than 1000
enrolled in Turkey. and most Of these
are Armenians and Syrians who were al
ready confessing Christians. have
again that not one Mahometan ever real
But that Is not the true test, for con-
version Is not the richest fruit Of the Ia
bors Of American missionaries in any
land. The instructions which the Amer
lean board Of foreign missions gave to
Cyrus Hamlin when in 1885 he set out
from Boston to blaze the way in the
object is not to subvert them (the old
ehurches); not to pull down and build
Already another pioneer missionary
ans sse " made BY
came into these countries" he said, IT
laid hold Of individuals and endeavored
to pull them out Of the fire. but my aim
and as far as possible to raise them all
up" And 1t is true beyond question that
no other one influence has done as much
as that of the missions to raise up the
Every little American school in rur-
key Is like an oasis in an intellectual
desert and the big American colleges at
Constantinople, Beirut and Harpoot are
They are like great arc lights, and their
thousands Of graduates are like incan-
descent lights shining through the dusk
Of Islam. Moslem and Greek and Gre
where they are taught how to think, /
not how to pray. how to live, II not how
to die, what to do, II not what to be-
lieve. Rather is the spirit of the mis-
sfohS VIC 6phlS "a TIC udStcT
when He said. IT am come that they
might have life and that they might
have 1t more abundantly." a"
One day met q missionary as he
he had passed twenty years of his lf
and which he was leaving for a time
that he might put his son in school in
Pennsylvenia: After him came a process
full people whom he had served SO long
as teacher. physician, counselor, and
who would not part with him until they
har escorted him to his home bound ship
and bestowed farewell kiss on either
cheek. -
Twentieth-Cen Crusaders,
In this new crusade the crusaders do
not carry the sword, but the school book
and the scrubbing brush. They do not
are neither soldiers Of the cross nor
proselyters against existing churches.
titude. And they have their roll Of
martyrs.
onss as I sailed along the Turkish
shore with one Of the Oldest and bravest
Of missionaries, listened to a stirring
tale Of the perils and sacrifices Of his
calling. Not that the veteran was with
out his amusing reminiscences. such as
the story Of z colleague who saved his
life, 1t might be said. by the skin Of his
false teeth.
This American clergyman while gal
Looping alone through q pass in the Tau
rus Mountains to q Turkish garrison,
guard for the protection Of his mission in
Q troubled time, suddenly found himself
face to face with a band Of murderous
KurdS and looking along their rife bar
subject, and 20 he boldly challenged the
credulous children Of the East to another
kind of combat.
'T can do something you can't do" he