The blight of Asia : $b An account of the systematic extermination of Christian populations by Mohammedans and of the culpability of certain great powers; with the true story of the burning of SmyrnaHorton, George
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The blight of Asia : $b An account of the systematic extermination of Christian populations by Mohammedans and of the culpability of certain great powers; with the true story of the burning of Smyrna
Horton, George
Christians -- Turkey; Fires -- Turkey -- İzmir; Greeks -- Turkey; Turkey; İzmir (Turkey) -- History
I have read this editorial time and time again, and all that I can get
from it is that the name of Christ, of a soap, of a tooth-paste, of a
salve, of a grease, of a cigarette, should be used as long as it produces
results, but when no longer potent, should be dropped. This is certainly
what has been officially done in Turkey with the Name. What the church
people of America should understand is that Mohammedanism is marching
on with firebrand and scimitar, the greatest enemy of Christianity in
the world, and that dropping the Name of Christ and the teaching of the
Master, by great Christian organizations, is another victory for the
Prophet. No sophistry, however ingenious, can obscure this fact. Let us
hope that this move on their part is the prelude to a great awakening and
revulsion on the part of Western Christians:
And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the
maids of the high priest:
And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him,
and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.
But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what
thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.
But Peter afterward testified in quite a different manner. There can
be no working for Christ in any place where his Name is dropped. That
concession is in itself a victory for the Powers of darkness.
In the press of October 25, 1925, appeared an article by George
Seldes, describing the persecution of the Christian Chaldeans, on the
Turkish-British frontier, near Mosul. It was announced as the first of a
series, but the other articles have not been published. It is so similar
to the other well authenticated happenings of a like nature described
in the foregoing pages, that it forms a logical continuation of the
narrative. I quote from the _Washington Post_ of October 25, 1925:
Mosul, Mesopotamia, October 18 (By Mail to Cairo).—In a
beautiful village oasis called Zakho, on the British-Turkish
frontier in the biblical country, amidst peaceful
surroundings, I found witnesses to-day to a terrible tragedy
which Mohammedan Arabs as well as Christians asked me to relate
to the Christian world.
It is the story of the deportation of eight thousand Chaldean
Christians from the frontier, of their march into the interior
of Turkey, of how the Turks murdered men, violated women and
threw infants over precipices. It is a story of suffering
unparalleled in recent times and every word here written is
sworn to on the Bible by chieftains of villages and their
priests and attested by Archbishop Timothy, their spiritual
father.
OLD AND ILL SLAIN
“Will the Christian world believe that such things can happen
now?” asked Archbishop Timothy as the Mukhtar—or sheif—of
Murga, knelt and told his story. What the Mukhtar told in
Arabic was this:
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