PAGE. They Tore the Babes from the Arms of their Mothers Frontispiece Scene of the Massacres in Asia Minor 4 In this House 115 Women and Children were Roasted Alive 5 Ruined Church and Homes at Adana 6 General Prince Loris Melikoff 19 General Ter Goukassoff 24 Muckertich Khirimian 30 Matthevose Ezmerlian 33 Nerses Varjabetian 46 Minaret at Erivan, one of the Cities Tradition Ascribes to be Founded by Noah 64 Great and Little Ararat 66 Abgar King of Armenia 70 Soorb Gregore Loosavoritch 74 The Cathedral of Etchmiatzi 76 WHY AND WHEREFORE. In making a study of my race, I have found three marked characteristics Intelligence--Energy--Industry. Combined with these three characteristics is an intense Love of Nationality. We live in a complex world. In an independent people these characteristics and this sentiment are laudable Virtues. In a subject people they are Crimes. After I had laid this bitter Truth to heart, I did not have to seek for the Why and Wherefore of the Armenian Massacres. The Armenian Massacres stand without their parallel in history. The human mind staggers to contemplate the fiendish orgies of which they have been the victims, and no pen can describe their horrors: and this helpless christian people are to-day in the same deadly peril as they have been since the famous Treaty of Berlin consigned them bound hand and foot to the mercy of their executioners. The Armenians may be led again “as sheep to the slaughter” and the work of extermination may be completed--Jesus Christ was crucified on Calvary and the servant is not greater than his Lord--but the work of their extermination can only be completed when the evil influences in the Turkish Empire have reached their culminating point. Hitherto the Powers of Europe have by their jealousies and rivalries cultivated these evil influences, they have watered them and made them grow, but when their culminating point is reached, they must re-act on Christendom and the natural consequence must follow. Those who sow the wind, must reap the whirlwind. It is in the natural order of things. I will allow that Liberty, Justice, Equality, Fraternity are the watchwords of Young Turkey, but Young Turkey is only a small minority; the great majority of the Turkish nation are not Young Turks.