The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-05


Age-Herald Sunday that the
biggest film spectacle of all
time, "The Auction of Souls,
featurinf Aurora Mardigan-
ian, herself the sole survivor
of one-half million Christian
girls from Turkish atrocities,
will be presented in Birming-
ham, has caused wide comment
and the coming event is being
widely discussed.
Prominent men in the city
have declared that the coming
of this spectacle will be the big
gest screen event in Birming-
ham in the history of the pho
toplay.
This sensational and wonderful film
will be presented at the Trianon the
atre one week. beginning Monday. Aug
ust 18th. Many people have seen this
film production in New York and
since the announcement of its coming
to Birmingham, are congratulating those
who will give all Alabama an opportunity
to see what the Christians of the Near
East have suffered for their faith in the
true and living God.
Never in the history of Christian per-
secutions has there been one which ap-
preached the torture and virtual muir
der of 100000 followers of Christ on the
burning plains south of Armenia dur
ing the two years following fateful day
in 1915.
Never did Christian people, tried
by a CHASTITY ordeal of fire, thirst, hum
ger, fatigue and worse horrors, conceived
in the devilish brain of the Infamous
Turk, go more unflinchingly to meet its
Maker. The bloody arena of Nero, the
painful wanderngs of the Pilgrims, the
| terrors of the Spanish Inquisition-his-
| tory's most poignant examples OF
staunch martydom for the cause of the
Cross-sink to insignificance beside this
persecution of Christianity as set forth
in Auction of Souls"
Here was half a million people within
the shadow of Mt. Ararat, laboring
peacefully. following fervently and with
devout reverence the teachings of the
bible They were the oldest Christian
nation, situated not many miles from
| the ancient village in which the Savior
was born. They were contented, in
dustrious. thrifty and devout The
church was their shrine, and all the acts
| of their life were done in the grace of
| God
| or4b ~
| the sinister, fanatically pagan finger of
the Turk Attire with the hatred of
Christianity which had been burning for
| centuries, inspired by a mad religion
| based on cruelty and lust, they turned
| loose their long pent-up barbaric animal
| ISM Never in the Middle Ages did the
| Mohammedan sweep down upon the
! Christian with more abandon Never did
! the pagans of Western Europe descend
upon the followers of the Cross more
| fiercely
| Girls were torn from their mothers
The defiing Turkish fingers upon theil
trembling flesh, they were asked: ''Wil
you renounce Christianity? Will you &C.
cept Mohammed?''
| Eyes turned to heaven they answered
"No!"-and were dashed to the ground
sentenced to infamies which cannot be
spoken, to the outrages of the harem. t.
the burning shame of the slave market
Babies, baptised in Jesus, too younl
to comprehend the fanatical There i:
no God but Allah and Mohammed Is hi.
prophet" were hurled against trees OF
walls, killed before the eyes of theil
fainting mothers.
Christian men were dragged away, offer
ed the Mohammedan faith, and given t.
| the lust of the conQueror or to his swort
as they answered e"No!"