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A RACE THAT GOES BACK TO THE ARK
Forth from the Ark on Ararat’s
lofty side stepped Noah and his wife,
his sons, Shem, Ham and Papeth, and
their respective wives, and every liv
ing thing on the earth, for there had
been a wet spell in the world, which
meant at that time the region be
tween the Caspian, Black, Red and
Meditarranean seas as we know them
now.
Haig was the grandson of Noah.
Whether Haig enjoyed the voyage in
the Ark Holy Writ does not state,
nuor does tradition affirm. He may
have been cradled in the great craft,
as it tossed on the waters that cov
ered the earth; he may have fed the
raven that did not come back and
the dove that did. We can’'t say as
to that. But tradition about Ararat
to this day affirms that Noah not only
knew Haig, but that the old navigator
was still living when Haig led his
numerous progeny back from the
iand of Babylon, whose climate did
not agree with him, and settled near
the base of the mountain on which
the Ark rested. |
And from that day to this, I)l‘o\'id—}
ed the Turks have not killed them all,
the Armenian race has dwelt distinct
there around Ararat’s base.
Only they do not call themselves
Armenians. This tribe, descended
straight from the Ark, with unbroken
lineage for 4,000 or 5,000 years, calls
itself Haigs. Armenians call one an
other Haigs—Ha-cetggs, they pro
nounce it—and refer with pride to
their distinguished ancestry. }
Ere this race vanish from the fa(’el
of the earth in the fearfal slaughter,l
than which there has been none more,
dreadful in all the ages the Haigsg
have lived and in all the wars andi
persecutions through which they have!
passed, glance backward at its rec-l
ord. |
Early Conquerors of Asia Minor. i
The name ‘‘Armenian’’ they get‘
from Aram, who was sixth in the
descent from Haig, but Haigs is thel
name they ordinarily use; Abram is|
too modern. They had a principality |
in the days when the world wasi
young, stretching wide from Ararat'sl
base. All the storied region which al
ways has been the fighting ground for'
the half savage tribes of the east once
belonged to the Haigs. All Persia,
Medopotamia, Syria, Cappadocia fell
beneath their sway. Their kings wan-
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Armenians, Whom Turks Are Trying to Destroy, Are
Descendants of Noah. About the Base of Ararat
Haig Set Up a People Whose Power Spread
i Over All of Asia Minor.
dered widely and reigned from the
Caspian sea to the Mediterranean,
from Pontus to Assyria. Asia Minor,
as we know it, was Haigasdan or
Armenia and 30,000,000 souls were
beneath their sway; for Haig himself
was a powerful warrior and his sons
were men of war.
Like all potentates of the east in
the early drawings of time the pow
erful Kings of Armenia believed in
autocratic rule. Their sway was Ori
ental in its completeness. Their word
was law, their subjects slaves. Plu
tarch tells of an Armenian King who
had many captive Kings in his court
to wait on him, and particularly four
““‘as mace bearers or footmen, who,
whenever he rode on horseback, ran
before him ‘in short jerkins; and
when he sat to give audience stood
by with their hands clasped togeth
er: which last circumstance seems
.a mark of the lowest slavery, a token
‘that they had not only resigned their
liberty but that they were prepared
to suffer rather than to act.”
That is the Oriental idea of power,
to capture your man, then rub it into
him. 2
Well, the Armenians certainly
“got theirs” later on. For centuries
they were leaders in war, literature,
art and trade. It was an Armenian
King that helped Mithridates stand
off the armies of Rome so long in
the third Mithridatic war. Tigranes
was he, Tigranes the great. Of him
Lucullus wrote, ““There sits Tigranes,
King of Kings, surroanded with that
power which has wrested Asia from
the Parthians, which carries Grecian
colonies into Media, subdues Syx'ia]
and Palestine, cuts off the Selleuci
dae, and carries their wives and |
daughters into captivity. The prince
is nearly allied to Mithridates; he is
his son-in-law.” It's on'y 500 years
since the Moslems overwhelmed and
subjugated the Armenians, who had
become arrogant of their power, had
allowed dissentions to weaken them
within and had failed to make friends
without.
But the Armenians about half a
century before the Nazarene Carpen
ter walked the Syrian hills were pow
erful among the rulers of the world,
Oriental potentates of splendor and
strength, like the other potentates,
grabbing, ravishing, ruling what they
could get, seeking nothing for more
and at last becoming strong enough
to make even Rome sit up and listen.
The Business Man of Turkey.
But there were other qualities in
the sons of Haig besides military val
or and vanity; they had keen intel
lectual powers and possessed then as
now commercial gifts that put them
to the forefront of the traders. To
this day there is a saying in Islam
|that if you permit even two or three
Armenians to do business unhamper
ed in a Turkish city they will soon
own the city. There is a saying that
one Jew equals in trade seven Yan
kees and one Armenian equals seven
Jews.
Through the ages this commercial
ability has marked the Armenians.
Tirey have been for 500 years the
business men for Turkey. Their acu
men for trade is great; they have
been the bankers and traders; to
them have been entrusted the fiduci
ary offices in the Sultan's realm.
Here’'s a story of the east, savor
ing a little of the Arabian Nights,
but which doubtless shows how the
sons of Haig have long financed the
Turk: Kazaz-Artyn, a noted Arme
nian of Constantinople, who had ris
)en from lowly rank to be head of the
‘royal mint, a post of great trust and
‘honor, was the close friend of Sultan
Mahmood, who would never let a
day pass over his head without see
ing Kazaz any more than he would
neglect his prayers. When came the
end of a long war with Russia, Sultan
Mahmood was found one day in d‘
blue funk by his trusted K'Azaz~Ar-—‘
tyn. ‘
“Why this grief, your majesty?”’
“The Muscovite giaours insist on |
heavy indemnity and there is not a‘
piaster in my strong box.” |
“Oh, is that all?"”’ was the cheerful
response of Kazaz. ‘*l'll fix that.”
And he called together the Armenian
bankers, and ere the next day’'s sun
had gilded the crescent on Santa So
phia every piaster was paid.
The First Glimmerings of Language.
Nor is their strength in trade all.
Equaling their valor in war was the
Armenian acumen for learning. Hun
gry,¢they absorbed Greek learning.
They had a language all their own
from the days of Ararat. The con
fusion of tongues at the tower of
Babel did not involve them, for Haig
had gone away from that region, and
the language of Armenia is proba
bly the oldest tongue that has come
directly from the first glimmerings
of time.
But for centuries they had no writ
ten language, no literature, until
they learned Greek and used Greek
characters to write their words. Butl
that failed to satisfy the national
spirit that wanted a distinct lan
guage. So Mesrob, a fifth century
monk, learned in many things, came
from Athens and invented a set of
characters, 39 in number, which Lord |
Byron styled a ‘“Waterloo of an al
phabet.” Modern in its plan it reads
from left to right and is the only an
cient luanguage of the east to be so
written. Haigs preserved the learn
ing of the east for centuries. In the
monasteries in the Ararat region
manuscripts of priceless value have
been cherished for centuries. Many
parchments of the Bible reposed
lthere, guarded by monks for centu
ries. The writings of Eusebius were
found there and to this day there
are storehouses of ancient literature
in the mountains of Persia that have
hardly been unsealed.
. But this is getting ahead of the
story.
The First Christian Nation,
The sons of Haig, the Armenians,
were the first to accept Christianity
as a nation. It came about in this
wise:
When Abgar, King of the Haigs,
once had occasion to send word to
the Roman general, Marius, over in
Syria, he dispatched a deputation to
carry the message. Returning from
their mission the deputies told him
of a wonderful new teacher of a new
and strange religion over in Syria, a
teacher who had gathered a dozen
fishermen about him and was going
up and down Palestine healing the
sick and performing all sorts of mir
acles. This, said the deputies of
Abgar, gave credence to the claim
that the new teacher was the son of
God. i
Abgar was sick. None of his ne
cromances or alchemists could cure
him, and so we find this powerful
King with a sway from the Caspian
to the Mediterranean, sending a sec
on deputation into Syria, this time
to invite the humble carpenter’s son
to visit the king and cure him.
This deputation, says tradition,
was received with satisfaction by the
Savior, who dictated to Thomas this
reply: ‘“When I shall rise in my glo
ry I will send you one of my disci
ples, who shall remove your pains,
and give life to you and to those
around you.”’
And so after the ascension He sent
Thaddeus, one of the early band of
70 preachers, to Edessa, then capital
of Armenia. Thaddeus, having in
structed the king in the new faith,
baptized him and the citizens of tha
metropolis. .
It was a couple of hundred vears,
however, before Sahag, the first arch
bishop of Armenia, completed the
spread of the new religion among the
Haigs, and before Gregory the Illum
inator, had come to Sesarea ana with
hig exposition of the new faith gath
ered followers called Gregorians.
And the Armenian church, similar
in vestment and rite to the Greek
church, is doubtless the nearest exist
ing likeness to any church of the
third century of any now extant—
that is, if there be a single' Armenian
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bishop or priest left or a single Arme
nian Christian.
Cruelty of Moslem Slaughter.
The slaughter by Enver Bey, ex
ceeding in ferocity anything that the
Christians have ever faced, exceed
ing even the persecutions under Nero,
is calculated to ‘exterminate the
Christians from Islam. It is a slaugh
ter that Enver Bey is quoted as say
iing accomplished more in a month
lthan the anti-Armenian policy of Ab
;dul Hamid, ‘‘Abdul the arch assas
'sin,” had accomplished in ten years,
Ia persecution to be proud of, and
{Abdul was the savage persecutor of
Armenia in 1894-96,
’ Listen to this translation from the
Arabic of the prayer of the Moslem:
“‘ln the name of Allah, the compas
sionate, the merciful! O Lord of all
creatures! O Allah! destroy the in
fidels and polytheists, thine enemies;
the enemies of religion! O Allah!
Make their children orphans, and de
file their abodes, and cause their feet
to slip, and give them, and their fam
ilies and their households, and their
women, and their children, and their
relatives by marriage, and their
brothers, and their friends, and their
possessions, and their race and their
wealth, and their lands, as booty to
them Moslems O, Lord of all creat
ures!”
This for the sons of Haig, the race
that has outlived almost every race,
the only race that can trace its ori
gin back to Ararat and the ark, the
earliest Christian people, the custo
dians of the faith during ages when
elsewhere than in their inountain
fastnesses and monasteries it would
have been swept away.
From 2,500,000 pecple when the
war began they have been diminished
by 835,000 massacred and by thous
ands who have 'been conscripted in
Turkish ranks and thousands who
have been banished. Ilf a million
should remain of the 20,000,000 sons
of Haig who once ruled the near east
it is a wonder.
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