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This Christian children's book is part of the "little schoolmate series" and was published in 1920.
This new story in our series is about a people whose name you
heard often during the Great War; perhaps you even sent some
of your own pennies across the ocean to help them; for no one,
not gallant little Belgium itself, suffered more in the war than
did the Armenians. We sometimes think of them as the
the Belgians of the East, for their resistnace delayed the
advance of Turkish battalions, just as Belgium's brave
stand prevented the first onrush of the Germans; and the
Turkish revenge has been more horrible than the German.
The bulletins of the Near East Relief Committee, which
raised money for food and clothing and medicine and helpers
in Western Asia, tell us how the Turks tried to annihilate the
Armenians, and how, among the four million Armenians,
Syrians, Jews, Greeks and Persians who survived, four
hundred thousand were orphans. In those first four
months after the armistice, they were still dying every
day, by hundreds, of starvation and disease, they were
homeless and naked, Miss B. S. Papazian, an Armenian,
has written a little book about her people, "The Tragedy
of Armenia", in which she sasy, "the Armenians of Turkey
to the number of about a million, old and young, rich and
poor, and of both sexes, had been collectively drowned,
burned, bayoneted, starved, bastinadoed, or otherwise
tortured to death, or else deported on foot, penniless
and without food, to the burning Arabian deserts." The
whole story of their sufferings is too terrible for children
to read; yet, American children are not willing to shut
their eyes and ears to the sorrow's of their brothers and
sisters, whether in France or Belgium, or close at home in
our American city slums, or far over seas in Asia Minor. I
wonder how many boys and girls who read this letter,
adopted a French orphan, or gave a little refugee a
merry Christmas? And how many had a share in feeding
and clothing and educating some little forlorn Armenian
child?
But this story of Archag, and his life at the missionary school,
is not in our Schoolmate Series merely because Armenians are
a persecuted people whom American children ought to love
and to succor; it is here also because there are a good many
Armenians in America, and more are coming, whose children
will be American citizens in another twenty years. The
Armenians, like our own Puritan fore-fathers, came here
to escape religious persecution; so those of us who happen
to be descended from the early settlers in New England
ought to have a strong fellow-feeling for this other race of
Christians who have suffered for the sake of their religion and
have hoped to find religious freedom here with us.
The Armenian Church, for which Armenians suffer martyrdom
in our enlightened twentieth century, is one of the most
ancient of the Churches of Christendom. Its founder was
St. Gregory, called the Illuminator, who received a heavenly
vision and built a little chapel, in A.d. 303, on the spot on
which the vision came to him. It was this Gregory who con-
verted King Tiridates of Armenia to Christianity, and it was
King Tridates who proclaimed Christianity the State religion
of Armenia, some years before the Emperor Constantine
made it the state religion of Rome. The Armenian Church is a democratic church, for the clergy in the villages are appointed
and paid by their own congregatons, and often in poor
places the priest and his wife work in the fields with the
peasants. The Armenian's Church is the true hoe of his spirit.
He has no country of his own, for the region which we think
of as Armenia was, before the Great War, divided among three nations, Russia, Turkey, and Persia and arbitrarily ruled by
them. The Armenians were a subject people; but in their
religion they were free, and they have endured torture and death for the sake of this dear freedom.
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This Christian children's book is part of the "little schoolmate series" and was published in 1920.
This new story in our series is about a people whose name you
heard often during the Great War; perhaps you even sent some
of your own pennies across the ocean to help them; for no one,
not gallant little Belgium itself, suffered more in the war than
did the Armenians. We sometimes think of them as the
the Belgians of the East, for their resistnace delayed the
advance of Turkish battalions, just as Belgium's brave
stand prevented the first onrush of the Germans; and the
Turkish revenge has been more horrible than the German.
The bulletins of the Near East Relief Committee, which
raised money for food and clothing and medicine and helpers
in Western Asia, tell us how the Turks tried to annihilate the
Armenians, and how, among the four million Armenians,
Syrians, Jews, Greeks and Persians who survived, four
hundred thousand were orphans. In those first four
months after the armistice, they were still dying every
day, by hundreds, of starvation and disease, they were
homeless and naked, Miss B. S. Papazian, an Armenian,
has written a little book about her people, "The Tragedy
of Armenia", in which she sasy, "the Armenians of Turkey
to the number of about a million, old and young, rich and
poor, and of both sexes, had been collectively drowned,
burned, bayoneted, starved, bastinadoed, or otherwise
tortured to death, or else deported on foot, penniless
and without food, to the burning Arabian deserts." The
whole story of their sufferings is too terrible for children
to read; yet, American children are not willing to shut
their eyes and ears to the sorrow's of their brothers and
sisters, whether in France or Belgium, or close at home in
our American city slums, or far over seas in Asia Minor. I
wonder how many boys and girls who read this letter,
adopted a French orphan, or gave a little refugee a
merry Christmas? And how many had a share in feeding
and clothing and educating some little forlorn Armenian
child?
But this story of Archag, and his life at the missionary school,
is not in our Schoolmate Series merely because Armenians are
a persecuted people whom American children ought to love
and to succor; it is here also because there are a good many
Armenians in America, and more are coming, whose children
will be American citizens in another twenty years. The
Armenians, like our own Puritan fore-fathers, came here
to escape religious persecution; so those of us who happen
to be descended from the early settlers in New England
ought to have a strong fellow-feeling for this other race of
Christians who have suffered for the sake of their religion and
have hoped to find religious freedom here with us.
The Armenian Church, for which Armenians suffer martyrdom
in our enlightened twentieth century, is one of the most
ancient of the Churches of Christendom. Its founder was
St. Gregory, called the Illuminator, who received a heavenly
vision and built a little chapel, in A.d. 303, on the spot on
which the vision came to him. It was this Gregory who con-
verted King Tiridates of Armenia to Christianity, and it was
King Tridates who proclaimed Christianity the State religion
of Armenia, some years before the Emperor Constantine
made it the state religion of Rome. The Armenian Church is a democratic church, for the clergy in the villages are appointed
and paid by their own congregatons, and often in poor
places the priest and his wife work in the fields with the
peasants. The Armenian's Church is the true hoe of his spirit.
He has no country of his own, for the region which we think
of as Armenia was, before the Great War, divided among three nations, Russia, Turkey, and Persia and arbitrarily ruled by
them. The Armenians were a subject people; but in their
religion they were free, and they have endured torture and death for the sake of this dear freedom.
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