(_The New Armenia_) Through all this golden sunshine there peals a mournful cry, Help, help us, or we perish--help, help us, or we die! Our babes are begging wildly for one small crust of bread, They faint, they die with hunger--is there a God o’erhead? Oh, haste with friendly succor, we are starving while we wait, To thousands sinking graveward your help may come too late; Our gaunt forms totter feebly; our lips grow wan and white, Oh, God, how hard it is to starve beneath a sky so bright! Your hearths are crowned with plenty, your homes with blessings rife; The scattered crumbs that strew your floor might save a human life; Oh, can you hear, unmoved and calm, of all our bitter need, Nor feel your quivering heart-strings with throbs of pity bleed? Dear brethren, would ye follow Christ, our starving children save, Keep back the shuddering feet that tread the margin of the grave; Send on your bounty quickly, with timely comfort haste, For human lives are ebbing out each moment that you waste. I ARMENIA Within the last few years Armenia has been attracting the attention of the civilized and Christian world. Those parts of Armenia, which were in the Turkish and Persian empires, have been turned by the devotees of the Mohammedan faith into altars upon which human sacrifices have been offered. Yea, not only the Turkish and Persian Armenia but also the whole of Asia Minor, and in fact every city, town, and village in the Turkish Empire where Armenians were found, the high priests and low priests of Islam were intensely engaged in the slaughter of the Christians as sacrifices acceptable to Allah. It is a lamentable fact that according to the teaching of Mohammed the severer the Mohammedan is to his unbelieving or non-Mohammedan neighbor the greater will be his reward, and the better his position in paradise. It may not, therefore, be amiss if we say a few words about the original and ancestral home of the Armenians, whence they have been at times driven and scattered throughout the Mohammedan dominions and have become the victims of cruelty and massacre for ages. Armenia lies directly north of Mesopotamia. It is bounded on the north by the Caucasian Mountains, on the south by the Mesopotamian plains, on the east it extends to the Caspian Sea and Media and on the west to the Black Sea and Asia Minor.[1]