The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-29
BILLY sundays
idea ABOUT HOW
TO TREAT TURK
Put Him in Corner Where
He Belongs and Save Ar
menians and Syrians

just as great a menace in Africa and
Asia as in America. He says that
people are not born heather. They |
become heather under conditions
that could be remedied if the people
of Christian lands would do their |
duty by their less fortunate neigh |
bors. The word is so small now, and
we have become so dependent upon
the people of these other lands for
labor and special materials that enter
into our manufactures, that we can
not repudiate our moral responsibility
for their welfare.
Missionary enthusiasts looked for
ward with more than usual interest
to Mr.. Sundays Missionary Meet
ing in the Tabernacle, Monday night.
Somehow the impression prevailed
that he did not believe in missions,
particularly foreign missions But to
use his own language, "a man would
be a fool to suppose that God intend
ed to save Americans only. Jesus
Christ came to drive the levi1 off the
globe If have been SO busy ba--s-
ing up the Lord in this part of the
battle line that I have not said much
about what is going on in China and
Timbuctoo, it hasn't been because I
wasn't interested, nor because I did
not know that the devil is not dead
till he is dead all around the world.
Much of the devilment we see here
in New York comes from other lands,
and every year we ship enough rum
to Africa to send the whole contin-
emit to He'll. Think Of it-rum from
Boston,! Then did you know that most
of the tin gods used by the hathen
in India are made in the United
States, Germany used to have a
monopoly on that business, but Phi1a-
de1ephia and other cities now have
the trade. If we can send theme
brass idols W surely ought to be able
to send some live men. / believe
in the whole missionary business from
top to bottom. If didn't, what
those Turks have done to the Arme-
mans and Syrians would fix me. Was
there ever such a record in all his
tory? Listen!"
More than million men, women
and children have been slain. Two
million helpless refugees appeal to us
for bread to save them from starva-
ton. Simply to die = would have
meant heaven to these people, but
before they were permitted to pass
away there were practiced upon them
crue1ties that surpass human belief.
Il Utilities lOIu apart, pcOplo uIAVSu
like cattle; old men slain in cold
blood; preachers, professors, some of
them educated in America, fou1ly
murdered, after LAYING their tongues
cut out, their nails extracted by the
roots and other indignities heaped
upon them, that are to obscene to
mention; women violated, forced into
harems, or left by the roadside to
die. A favoIite method of torture
was to close all the doors and win
dows in a large house, make a hole
in the roof, then throw the victims
alive through this hole till the house
was filed. Over this mass Of strug-
Cling humanity buckets Of oil were
poured and the torch applied!
Orphans by the tens of thousands
have ben gathered, in some parts by
kind friends who, will care for them,
in others by Turks who will bring
them up "as Turks
These once thriving and prosper
Gus people, innocent, unoffending, in
dustrious; possessed of homes, of
business property, farms and gardens
living in comfort and in many cases
in affluence, have suddenly been
stripped of all possessions, driven
from their homes and left to wander
in the interior, or to find such a live
1ihood as they can obtain in places
already overcrowded and among peo-
pie to whom they are strangers and
where their coming seriously compli-
Gates an already well-nights insoIuble
food problem
Lord Bryce, Hon. Arthur James
Balfour and others have written fully
on the Armenian Question as a polit-
ical issue, and upon the atrocities as
a blot upon civilization. So long as
such things are possible anywhere
missionaries are needed. The world
cannot be safe for democracy till it
is safe everywhere. One mad dog
is a menace to community. So
long as one saloon exists our boys
are not safe. Freedom for the Turk
or anybody else to butcher his neigh
Dor creates a situation calling for at
tention. "Shall we apply the Turk
medicine to himself? No, that is not
the Christian way. But it is chris
tan to make him behave. Put him
in a corner where he belongs Save
these Arr1enians and Syrians who
were the very first people to accept
the gospel of Jesus Christ. It was
among their hills and in their valleys
that the first Christian churches were
established. Encourage our mis-
sionaries who are working among
them and throw such a Gordon of
good around those blasted Turks that
they will just have to be good or
die in the attempt"
tits just as President Wilson says,
the whole. country-every man, wonn-
an and child-must be modified for
the war. So every member of every
Christian church must be modified
for the Christian conquest of the
world. Don't. wait to be drafted
Do your duty. Give your money.
Pray for the men and women on the
firing line in Armenia, China, Africa,
and the Islands Of the Sea-
Lets take hold and clean up the
whole world. If you leave a bad
spot anywhere its filth will run over
on the good places. To make any
one part of the world really safe, we
must make all parts safe. In order |
to be sure that we have saved one !
man, we must save all. This is what |
the missionaries have always said. |
The great war has proved that they
are right
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