The Detroit times., 1916-10-07
Naked Children Slain
In Yards Adjoining
Schools
AMERICANS START
RELIEF CAMP AIGN
175,000 Ministers Have
Been Asked TO AS
sist In Work
eY THE RELIGIOUS RAMsLgR.

BY THE RELIGIOUS RAMBLER.
OF all the drives" OF tAe word
war. none T. more significant or M
way, more spectacular than that
now being prepared for by the re-
llgious forces Of America IN behalf
OF the Armenians and Syrians, who
are perhaps the worst sufferers from
the war In all the brilliant annals
of American philanthropy there prob
ably has never before been al al
truistic effort Of greater Magnitude
than that which IL now under way.
with Oct. % set as the time 20 go
over the top. as the soldiers say
Every one OF the more than 49,
900 ministers OF religion in the coun-
Try has been directly asked. oy a
personal communication, TO partici-
pate. The president OF The United
States has called for the Observance
of Oct Fl and % as Armenian re-
lief days. The American committee
for Armenian and Syrian relief. Of
which Cardinal Gibbons, Rabbi Wise
and leading Protestants are mem
bers has supplemented the call by
an elaborate propaganda The Fed
eral Council Of Churches. represent.
ing all Protestant denominations, has
addressed a letter 10 every minister
whose name is on file. The Lay
mems Missionary Movement has lent
q staff of its secretaries 10 direct the
"drive." Sunday schools and Chris
tian Endeavor societies and Epworth
leagues, already interested in Ar
menIa, will cooperate with their To-
cal churches The religious press Is
supporting the call.
Assuming that all clergymen make
use OF the abundance OF sermon
material for the occasion that has
been supplied them. and that the
average sermon contains three thou
eand words, we have a prospect Of
more than half a billion words 20 be
uttered on Oct. % In behalf OF The
prosecuted Armenians Add 10 this
the addresses and talks before sun.
day schools and classes and young
peoples societies and women's meet.
ings and special gatherings, and the
volume of appeal becomes stagger-
ing.
AS a feat OF propaganda the ef
fort is notable. The aim Is 10 Las
the case of the Armenians upon the
heart OF America. To that end, the
church is the most efficient method
OF approach, II direct results are de
sired. Broadly speaking, II is the
church people who do the oenevo-
lent giving OF the country.
The remotest corner Of America Is
reached by the church There are
no longer any considerable number
OF unchurched communities. Where
politicians never so. there little
churches are 10 be found More
over. the members subject them
selves voluntarily every week 10 the
influence OF the preachers mes
sages.
Any cause that gets q wholesale
hearing in the churches is also pow
erfully reflected In the public schools
and In the secular press So from
all angles. the cause Of Armenia is
likely TO be considered In all its "a
poets during the present month
These ancient people. whose home
was beneath Mt Ararat, have been
pre-eminently the martyr church OF
Christian history Since they are
q church, rather than a state, they
have a peculiar claim upon Chris
tians.
Despite all that has been printed
about the Armenian atrocities, the
worst remains unwritten The Mos
lens have been guilty OF peculiarly
revolving horrors which may not be
told in the English language The
10000 Armenians who we're recently
slain In the neighborhood OF Tarsus
were less cruelty treated than the
more than million. mostly women
and children. who were "deported'
from their homes. most OF them tc
die natural death from starva
ton, exposure and hardship
Final ngures cannot yet be given
because Turkey has rigidly shut al
doors, but II is known that at leas'
three-auarters OF million persons
have perished. and as many more 81
Imminent danger OF death Almos
one-half OF the total Armenian popu
b iation OF the world has been wlpeC
out.
The plight Of the survivors, driy
en- Into desert places or into regioni
remote from their homes, boggar
description The Germans in IN,
faculty Of the German high schoo
NJ Aleppo, Syria, sent an appeal {,
The German foreign ofice to put az
end to the deeds q It's ally Thre,