Review and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 25. (6/24/1909)

Review and Herald

Jun 24, 1909

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 24, 1909

The Coming Dawn

By Worthie Harris Holden

WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN

Aweary of groping in darkness,— In the midnight of hopeless despair,— We herald the glad morrow dawning, And find that our Day-star is there.

We could not behold Thy great glory With vision accustomed to night, So the light on the path of the righteous, Like the dawn, shineth bright and more bright.

There is light for each soul—e’en the heathen; There is dawn when the lost turn to God; And the sun in effulgence and splendor Shineth bright o’er the path Jesus trod.

Thus the road leads from darkness of midnight To God’s glorious noontide above: Need we fear, then, the threatening storm-clouds When the sun shining through them is Love?

Portland, Ore.

The July “Life and Health” Now Ready for Delivery

By Editor

“THE best seller of the season,” was the comment of an experienced agent when he had examined the July issue. To see it is to believe it.

Over 65,000 copies of the June number were ordered before June 10. We are printing 60,000 copies as the first edition of the July number. We predict a very large sale for this beautiful number. An artistic boating scene, photographed from life, appears on the front cover-page. This cover design is the most beautiful one that has ever adorned this our national magazine of health. Its appearance alone will help to sell thousands of copies.

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Contents of July Number

ILLUSTRATIONS.—Nearly thirty full-page and smaller photo-reproductions illumine the articles.

GENERAL ARTICLES.—Errors in Diet as Related to Inebriety and Crime, by D. H. Kress, M. D. — The Prevention of Autointoxication, by J. R. Leadسworth, M. D. — Garden Reflections, by R. O. Eastman — Respiratory Gymnastics as a Means of Combating Abdominal Weakness (six illustrations, showing thirty-five positions), by Charles Shattinger, M. D. — Cottonseed Oil as a Food, by O. C. Godsmark, M. D. — A Century of Women’s Hats (eleven illustrations), by Mrs. Harriet E. Bell.

RATIONAL TREATMENT IN THE HOME.—Home Treatments for Common Diseases, No. 5 — Treatments for Tonic Effect: Cold Plunge-Bath; Cold Sponge-Bath; Hot and Cold Applications to the Spine; Alcohol Rub; Cold-Mitten Friction; Sitz and Pail-Pour; Salt Glow, etc., — by W. A. George, M. D.

HEALTHFUL COOKERY.—Cooking Lessons, No. 6 — Drinks: Unwholesome Drinks; Wholesome Drinks; Strawberry Nectar; Raspberry Nectar.

HEALTHFUL DRESS.—Dress and Its Relation to Health (three illustrations).

THE HOME ACRE.—Build Now (two illustrations), by Mrs. Stella Ridgway.

CURRENT COMMENT.—The Fly That Does Not Wipe His Feet — Sandals (illustrated) — Sterility of Old Ice From Infected Water.

ABSTRACTS.—The Feeding of the Healthy Infant — Insects and Disease.

MEDICAL FORUM.—Insurance Organizations and Tuberculosis — The Ordinary “Cold” — Insanitary Handling of Foods — “Trying It on the Dog” — Athletics Not Altogether Beneficial.

THE MEDICAL MISSIONARY AT WORK.—Preaching the Gospel and Healing the Sick, by A. C. Selmon, M. D.

EDITORIAL.—The “Typhoid Fly” — Milk and Tuberculosis — Queer, Isn’t It? — The Laboratory as an Aid to Physicians — What Is Insanity?

THE CONSULTING ROOM.—You Need Rest, by G. A. Hare, M. D.

NEWS NOTES.—Teaching Causes Neurasthenia — Roof Playground — Tuberculosis Death-Rate Diminishing — Sanitary Towels — Poisonous Effects From Epsom Salts — Petition to Do Away With Smoking Cars — Tuberculosis in Milk the Gravest Peril — To Lengthen Life — Health Rules for Centenarians — Outdoor School for Tuberculous Children — and numerous other items of vital interest.

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Editorial

By Editor

The Message for the Hour

“The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry?”

Three things I will speak about: (1) That the times demand a definite, clear-cut gospel message; (2) that God has given such a message to meet the demands of the time; (3) that every messenger should have such a clear understanding of the message that he will be able to deliver it in such a way as to meet the demands of the time.

1. The times demand a definite, clear-cut gospel message. It has been so in the time of every gospel crisis. One instance will illustrate. John the Baptist gave a definite message when he prepared the way for the first advent of our Lord. The voice of one saying, “Cry.” And one said, “What shall I cry?” And he answered: “All flesh is grass, and all the goodness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever.” Then came the exhortation: “O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold, your God! Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come as a mighty one.” When John the Baptist was inquired of concerning his work, and was asked whether he was the Messiah, he said, “No.” “Art thou that prophet?” and he said, “No.” “Art thou Elijah?” and he said, “No.” “Who art thou, then?” and he said, “I am the voice of one crying;” and his message was based upon the instruction given in the prophecy of the fortieth chapter of Isaiah.

Yet John the Baptist did not say to the people in that form of words, “All flesh is grass.” When the people came out at his preaching, he said, “O generation of vipers,” speaking to the Pharisees, “who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance; and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father.” This was his application of that scripture, “All flesh is grass.” They were not to pride themselves upon race or birth or parentage. It must be character. That was the first part of his message, “All flesh is grass.”

The second part was, “Behold your God!” John the Baptist did not use this exact form of words. But one day when Jesus passed by, John pointed to him, and said, “Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!” It was necessary, in order that Israel should be able to recognize the Messiah, and to receive him, that they should place no confidence in the flesh; that they should forget that they belonged to the chosen people, and should depend only upon character; and, further, that that character should be the character, or the righteousness, of God; and that they should be able to recognize God manifested in the flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, even though he was of humble, lowly birth. So John’s message to them was simply a development of those two principles, no confidence in the flesh, all confidence in God.

Just the same as John the Baptist had a definite message, based upon a definite scripture, in the preparation of the way for the first advent of Christ, so it is necessary that in the preparation of the way for the second advent, there should be an equally definite message, based upon the clear statement of the Scripture.

Now as to the demand at this time for a clear-cut gospel message, based upon the Scripture, that will teach to all the people the fundamental truths of original Christianity. I want to call your attention, briefly, to some of the very marked and startling departures from the truths of God’s Word, on the part, mainly, of those who profess to believe in and teach it as the Word of God.

Let me call your attention, then, to the fact that the two-horned beast of Revelation 13, representing this country, presents in its two horns two fundamental principles, republicanism and Protestantism. Both of these principles have received perhaps their clearest and purest illustration in the history of this country,—the first nation of the world to be founded upon the true principle, the Christian principle, of the entire separation of church and state—a church without a pope, a state without a king.

When these two fundamental truths are discarded, are set aside, America is no longer the country that it has been. We have looked forward to the time when this would be true. We have declared, on the basis of the prophecy, that it would come. To-day I think we may clearly say it has come. Not merely basing this upon an assertion, but calling your attention to statements that are attracting the widest attention just now; I refer to the series of articles just being published in one of the leading magazines, the Cosmopolitan.

Here is the editor’s note, introducing the articles, in the May number:—

What Mr. Bolce sets down here is of the most astounding character. Out of the curricula of American colleges a dynamic movement is upheaving ancient foundations, and promising a way for revolutionary thought and life. Those who are not in close touch with the great colleges of the country will be astonished to learn the creeds being fostered by the faculties of our great universities. In hundreds of classrooms it is being taught daily that the decalogue is no more sacred than a syllabus; that the home as an institution is doomed; that there are no absolute evils; that immorality is simply an act in contravention of society’s accepted standards; that democracy is a failure, and the Declaration of Independence only spectacular rhetoric; that the change from one religion to another is like getting a new hat; that moral precepts are passing shibboleths; that conceptions of right and wrong are as unstable as styles of dress; that wide stairways are open between social levels, but that to the climber children are encumbrances; that the sole effect of prolificacy is to fill tiny graves; and that there can be and are holier alliances without the marriage relation than within it. These are some of the revolutionary and sensational teachings submitted with academic warrant to the minds of hundreds of thousands of students in the United States. It is time that the public realized what is being taught to the youth of this country. “The social question to-day,” says Disraeli,

“is only a zephyr which rustles the leaves, but will soon become a hurricane.” It is a dull ear that can not hear the mutterings of the coming storm.

This is simply the editor’s brief outline of what is to be found in this series of articles. [Here the speaker read extracts from the articles, giving names of universities and professors, with quotations from their teachings fully justifying the editor’s outline.]

Mr. Bolce gives the statistics, and says that there are 229,000 students getting such instruction as this. “Do you not believe, professor,” he asked in one class-room, “that Moses got the ten commandments in the way the Scriptures tell?”

“The professor smiled. ‘I do not,’ he said. ‘It is unscientific and absurd to imagine that God ever turned stonemason and chiseled commandments on a rock.’”

Comment is unnecessary. Religion is relegated to the background, and philosophy and reasoning take its place. Is there need that some voice should cry? Is there need that there should be a clear-cut, definite gospel message to the people of this generation now?

But there was that other horn, representing republicanism, democracy. This same writer, in his article in the June number of the Cosmopolitan, touches upon this question:—

Eminent college men—among them Pres. Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton; Prof. Barrett Wendell of Harvard; and Prof. William Graham Sumner, of Yale—hold that the doctrines of the founders of this republic have long since served their day, and should no longer be applied to the needs of the present.

Professor Sumner has little respect for the “great principles” of 1776. They were invented, he teaches, because some new classes had won wealth and economic power, and wanted to secure political recognition. He asserts fearlessly, and other professors in other institutions support him, that what we have been accustomed to regard as lofty teachings, developed in that day, are nothing but high-sounding rodomontade; and he does not conceal his delight over the fact, as he proclaims it, that some of the old jingle of words is dead. Conspicuous among these rhetorical delusions of colonial times is the doctrine that proclaims that governments get their just powers from the consent of the governed. Professor Sumner teaches that this doctrine is untrue, that it has been trodden underfoot, and that the same fate awaits the rest of the principles which, seen through the mists of the Revolutionary War, have seemed great to us.

There is scholastic refusal to worship the past. A number of professors agree that the Declaration of Independence is a dead document, and that the fading of the original in a safe at Washington symbolizes what should be the end of this mass of glittering generalities. Contending that the principles of 1776 are absurd, Professor Sumner declares that men are no more equal than they are of one size. “The doctrine,” he says, “that all men are equal,” is being gradually dropped from its inherent absurdity, and we may at any time find it expedient to drop the jingle about “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

This is not the raving of a socialist on a sand-lot. It is the teaching of a professor of political science in one of the leading educational institutions of this country. Is this country to repudiate her principles of republicanism? I can not take time to read further, but I have given you a glimpse of it.

We have drawn the curtain aside for a moment to take a look, just a glimpse, at what is beyond. The changes in the history of this country, from the religious standpoint and from the political standpoint, are remarkable. These recent changes are nothing short of sensational.

Now I maintain that there is only one body of people who as a whole have repudiated just such teachings as this; who have met some of these very principles face to face, and declared against them; and who have maintained, and are still maintaining, the old platform of Christianity. For this band of people, who stand upon that platform, and who commit themselves to that work, there is nothing short of a terrific responsibility.

Now take a view of the other side. I have briefly alluded to some of the teachings of Protestantism. I want to call your attention for a moment to the Roman Catholic program for this country. It is best stated in their own words, as I surely shall not be misrepresenting the matter if I read their own statements. Here is an extract from an editorial in a Roman Catholic paper published in Chicago, the New World, dated Oct. 21, 1905:—

There has never been a period in American history when the church’s opportunity has been so close to her. To a great extent the ancient antagonisms have died. Protestantism is disintegrating before our eyes. . . . The moment is ripe to build a Catholic America, broader and stronger, and nobler and truer, than any empire the world has yet seen, and strong men are now laying the foundations. To-morrow you may see the walls rising; look forward an hundred years and you will see the vast edifice complete, extending from the first rays of the morning sun to the twilight splendor of the evening star. Those who lay the corner-stones may not live to behold their work stand finished, but unborn generations will bless them for the courage they had, and for the holy purpose with which they toiled.

Again: the Western Watchman of St. Louis, Oct. 29, 1908, contained the following:—

His Holiness is enthusiastic over America, especially the United States. To begin with, he likes our government and our public officials, with whom he has come into official relations. It must be confessed that the United States has treated Rome well whenever we had an opportunity. . . . Despoiled and persecuted in countries called Catholic; hampered and thwarted by Protestant governments, the church is given fair play and even-handed justice only in the United States. No wonder, then, the Holy Father feels kindly toward us as a nation.

But it is to the Catholics of the United States that Pius X’s heart goes out. He is amazed at our material and spiritual progress. The church is making advances only in America. Churches are multiplying here with wondrous rapidity. New dioceses are being formed every few years, and the dioceses already in existence are becoming cumbrous with the number of their clergy and people. Few bishops in Europe ever laid a corner-stone. It is a ceremony almost unknown. The church over there is growing weaker by dissensions and emigration. The outlook across the water is very discouraging to any but those of the strongest faith. In the midst of the gloom, abandoned by those who should stand by him in his agony, the Holy Father appeals to this country for comfort and support. And he appeals not in vain. American shoulders are to-day holding up the Vatican. Its revenues are largely derived from this country; and what is now a steady stream will soon be an on-flowing river.

That is the Catholic estimate of the present situation and the outlook. What does it mean?—Protestantism disintegrating, Protestantism dying, Protestantism no longer a force which needs to be reckoned with by the Roman Catholic Church; the field open now for the Roman Catholic Church to take possession of America, and to make America a Catholic country.

One word further: On June 29, 1908, a papal decree was sent forth remodeling what is known as the Roman Congregations, “taking the United States out of the category of missionary countries and placing it in a co-ordinate place with Italy, France, and Spain in the family of Christian nations.”

This means that the United States, by a papal decree, stands on the same basis as all Christian Catholic countries—such as Spain, Italy, and France before the Concordat was broken. This means that in the Roman Catholic mind the time is ripe for a remarkable onward movement, and the movement has already been inaugurated. In the great Catholic congress in New York City, in the great gathering at St. Louis, in the first missionary council at Chicago last November, steps were taken by the Roman Catholic hierarchy making it evident that in their view the time has come to make a tremendous movement to Catholicize America.

And where is the protest? Where is the protest against that program? Protestantism dying; Protestantism disintegrating; Protestantism having disowned its own principles;—with what weapon can Protestantism meet the onward march of Catholicism? What, then, is

the demand for the time?—It is the very message against the beast and his image.

In a very few words in the fourteenth chapter of the book of Revelation, in words familiar to almost every one in this audience, an outline—a syllabus, as it were—is given of the message for this generation. As time moves on, as developments come to our attention, more and more can it be seen how remarkably those principles apply at this time.

Now what is the bounden, solemn duty of every one who goes forth to carry this message to the world at this time? Circumstances here in America may be a little different from other countries, and yet the same principles apply. This message, which is to enlighten the world with its glory,—this message which is to call out a people from every nation, kindred, tongue, and people,—should be declared with clearness, with power, and with an adaptation to the circumstances of the hour that will command the attention of the people, that will lift up a standard to those who are looking here and looking there to see what standard of truth they can rally to.

2. Then, I say, secondly, God has given a message—a clear-cut message—adapted to the needs of this hour. It will bear a deal of study. It is not giving the message merely to repeat forms of words; it is not giving the message merely to take up teachings of a half-century ago, and repeat them. The teachings of a half-century ago in this message are the platform to-day; but the same truths, the same principles, have a new meaning, have a luster and a glory, that they could not have had at that time. The more I see of the developments in the world, the more I see that nowhere else can you turn to find the message for this hour. It is a wonderful thing. We are nothing; we have neither wealth nor talent nor standing to command attention. But here is a truth which, when understood and taught under the guidance of God’s Spirit, will itself command attention. It is a living thing. It is the living message to the world. It must be known as such; it must be taught as such; and then it will have power in it.

I would like just to call attention now briefly to some other things that are attracting public attention. They can not escape our observation. They can not stay outside our sphere of thought.

Who in America has not had his attention called over and over again to the Emmanuel Movement? Who in America has not been confronted again and again with Christian Science? Who in America does not hear on every hand, in every town and hamlet, those teachings of scientific infidelity that have in the last half-century taken out from underneath the gospel its very foundation? It was only this year that the centenary of Charles Darwin was celebrated by scientists; and I noticed an editorial in one of the leading religious journals, summing up the results of Charles Darwin’s work as it affected theology. Speaking of the results of his work, it says:—

Darwinism has revolutionized not merely biology, but all the sciences, including theology. . . . The new conception of life which he gave to the world has entered the Protestant churches, where it is known as the New Theology; and the Roman Catholic Church, where it is known as Modernism. . . . The Bible is not an infallible book about religion, written by the amanuenses of the Almighty; it is the historical record of the spiritual experiences of the spiritual leaders of a spiritually endowed people. Redemption is not the recovery of a lost state of innocence; it is the development of a spiritual order of creation merging from an animal condition and being educated toward a splendor of divine character and life as yet inconceivable by us. The fall is not a historical episode occurring in a remote past; it is the individual experience of every man when, by conscious disobedience of the laws of his own developed nature, he descends into or toward animal nature from which he has partially emerged. The world is not a natural order in which occasional glimpses of a higher Being may be seen, thanks to his occasional interferences; it is the perpetual and continuous expression of his Presence [note the idea of the immanence of God—God everywhere; God in everything], so that the natural is always supernatural and the supernatural always most natural. And history is not the despairing struggle of a “remnant” against the ignorance, superstition, and malignancy of a fallen race of men on their way to become devils; it is the evolution of a race in the making, toward a goal predetermined for them by their Maker and their Friend.—The Outlook, Feb. 20, 1909.

Who has not heard of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, an organization including 18,000,000 communicants and 50,000,000 adherents, publicly declaring that they constitute a majority of the people of America, and, as one paper said, referring to this matter, “When such a body, representing such a number of people, speaks, the people will listen to its voice.” Now, these are only some of the phases of American life, some of the developments of the last few years.

3. What, then, is the message needed for the hour? It is not the preaching of the things I have been reading about. It is the preaching of positive truth that will be the answer to every one of these errors. It will be a message against the false teaching of the beast, Roman Catholicism; it will be a message against every perversion of truth; it will be a call to primitive Christianity, the Christianity of Christ. How, then, shall we sum up just in a few words the message needed for the hour? The message of the personal God, the Creator,—“Worship him that made heaven and earth, the sea, and the fountains of waters;” a message of the infallible Word of God,—“The Word of our God shall stand forever;” a message of the incarnation of Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of man,—“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us;” a message of the deity and divinity of Jesus Christ; a message of righteousness as the gift of God through faith, not in the control of any church or any worldly priesthood; a message of the atoning sacrifice of Christ as the sufficient sacrifice; a message of life only through Christ; a message of the obligation to keep the commandments of God,—“Here are they that keep the commandments of God;” a message of the priesthood of Christ; a message of the judgment hour,—“The hour of his judgment is come;” a message of the nearness of the second advent, “Behold the Lord Jehovah cometh; behold, his reward is with him;” a message such as John the Baptist gave, which points out the utter weakness of the flesh, which discards everything that savors of the flesh, or self-exaltation, or self-righteousness, or self-salvation, and says in every way, though not necessarily in these words, but in every form of teaching: “All flesh is grass: behold your God.”

The United States and Foreign Entanglements

By C. M. S.

FOR years it was considered impossible that the United States should become mixed up in the politics of the Old World; but the developments of recent years have made it impossible that she should not become thus entangled. The “Monroe doctrine,” while designed to prevent conditions that must lead to strife between the powers of the two hemispheres, cut across the purpose of the principal powers of Europe, and made the republic of the West a factor to be reckoned with in every scheme for colonial expansion. At one stroke, then, America came into the political consideration of all those powers that coveted possessions in the New World.

But now, instead of exerting merely a repressive influence in world politics, America has found it necessary to formulate an active political policy of her own. The war with Spain made her a power of the East as well as of the West, and the Philippine Islands lie as hostages within the gates of the Old World. These possessions and the growing trade of the Pacific Coast have made it seem necessary to the American government that American tradesmen should have as free access to the markets of the Orient as have the tradesmen of any other nation. The threatened partition of China a few years ago, which

would have placed a serious handicap upon American manufacturers and traders in that respect, was the actuating cause in the adoption of the “open door” policy by this government and the policy of maintaining the integrity of the Chinese empire. Now, it is against the purpose and desire of both Japan and Russia that the integrity of the Chinese empire should be maintained absolutely; both desire to control the Chinese province of Manchuria. America’s program clashes with that of both these powers. The other powers that hoped to profit by China’s disintegration have had their purposes thwarted in that regard.

A few years ago the American government protested diplomatically to Bulgaria against her unjust treatment of a certain class of her subjects; and as a result of the Kongo atrocities, the United States joined Great Britain in presenting protests to those responsible for the maintenance of the peace in that part of Africa. Now come the Armenians of Turkey, distressed, oppressed, persecuted, their lives in continual danger at the hands of their enemies, thousands of them having been slain in the late uprising, and they plead that America shall take up their cause with the new Turkish government.

Can America keep herself free from international entanglements?—It is impossible. She is not free from them now, and every new year increases the causes for international entanglements. Mr. Thomas F. Millard, an authority on Oriental affairs, declares, in his recent book, “America and the Far Eastern Question,” that America is destined to play a leading part in the solution of the problems now arising in the Orient. To quote:—

When the Eastern situation is considered in the light of recent events and present circumstances, one is compelled to conclude that international equilibrium there can be restored and maintained only by creating a new balance of power; one which will be established on a different base, and which will contain a new element of strength and stability. This can be supplied, in my opinion, only by direct and active participation of the United States of America. Between the United States and China is a genuine community of interests, which has no proportionate parallel with the relations of our nation and any other Oriental state. If this is true, it is evident that no international arrangement or understanding having in mind the fate of China and the course of events there, which does not to some extent accord with the interests and desires of the United States, will possess any real vitality, or give any genuine assurance that peace will be maintained in the East. . . .

The Washington government must decide whether, in the crisis which is approaching, it will actively move to compel a satisfactory solution, or will permit American interests to continue to drift on the current of events; whether it will formulate its own policy, or have one thrust upon it; whether it will lead, or follow. For, that the United States must have a Pacific Ocean policy can not be doubted. American statesmen and people may shrink from participation in the Eastern question, but it inevitably will intrude upon them; and it is bound up in the fate of China. This great empire will be the storm-center of the forthcoming diplomatic struggle, and the scene of any international conflicts which failure of peaceful adjustment will provoke. As the “Monroe doctrine” invokes the United States to interfere should stronger nations aggress upon Central and South American states, so may a strong Pacific policy invoke its aid to preserve China.

The question as to how the United States could ever become involved in a world war is clearly enough answered by such considerations as these. Such an event is seen to be not only possible but more than probable, and signs are pointing in that direction already. At no previous time in the world’s history have conditions been so ripe for a war that would engage the world as they are at the present time, or been pointing with so emphatic a finger toward such a culmination.

C. M. S.

A Call for Immediate Help

By Z. G. Baharian

[Our people will have learned from the Bulletin and Review that during the General Conference word came from Turkey that numbers of our brethren and sisters there had been killed in the recent massacre of Christians, and others left destitute. A resolution of sympathy was adopted by the Conference, and it was understood that this would be followed by gifts for relief if required. Now we print letters from Turkey showing that brethren there are in need. The General Conference Committee has instructed the treasurer to cable to Europe authorization to the subtreasury to send on necessary relief. There is no time to collect such a fund. The relief money will therefore be taken from the mission treasury, already overdrawn. Will not our people, therefore, bear this in mind, and MAKE AN EXTRA GIFT in the midsummer offering, Sabbath, July 3, on this account? If all will do so, sufficient extra will be given to replace the relief forwarded, and there will be no need to call for a special fund. GENERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.]

An Urgent Appeal for Cilicia

Dear Brethren and Sisters in the Faith:

I am sure you have heard about the events which have been taking place in Turkey. A constitutional government was established last year, which caused great joy to the Armenians especially. The people of the Islam faith were not reconciled to it, but were obliged to keep still because the Young Turk party had the power of the army.

Influences worked secretly until they succeeded in overthrowing this new régime this year on April 13. It had formerly been planned to slaughter all Armenians and constitutionalists. Now the reactionary elements began to carry out this plan in the provinces of Adana (Cilicia) and Haleb (Antioch). Awful was the news that reached us from day to day. My heart went out for the believers in these places, but I could learn nothing about them. At first I heard that all the believers were safe, and I was glad; but soon we began to receive true information concerning them. The following letter is from our Brother Charles Simmons. He has been in Adana and Tarsus, and has seen their poor condition. The elder of the church and several other brethren who were very faithful, have been murdered without mercy. I don't know why God allowed this thing to happen to them. The rest of our people are in great need, without money, without beds, and without raiment. At this time I appeal to you in their behalf. While the people of the world are opening their hearts toward these provinces, is it not proper that you remember the believers just when they need your help? Please read carefully the letter of Brother Simmons, and act immediately as the Spirit of God moves upon your hearts. Send all money to the Foreign Mission treasury.

Yours in the message,

(Signed) Z. G. BAHARIAN.

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