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CHRISTIANS BUTCHERED
American Missionaries Murdered
By Fanatical Turks.
WARSHIPS HURRY TO SCENE
Report* Indicate That the Turkish Em
pire i* Aflame on Both Side* of
the Bosphorus.
Constantinople, Turkey.—Turkey is
aflame on both sides of the Bospho
rus. Anti-Christian feeling in Asia
Minor is spreading. Tne Mussulmans
are persecuting Christians wunoui
discrimination—but their hatred is di
rected principally against the Arme
nians—looting and ouriiing their
homes and putting mem to tne sword.
The Turkish government has said it
was doing all ii could to maintain or
der, but it is doubtful if this out
hurst of racial passion can be sub
dued at once, and during the week
further news of rioting and massa
cre can be expected.
The situation in Asia Minor is quite
distinct from the political turmoil
that invaded European Turkey mis
past week.
The former is racial and religious,
and .bears a strong resemblance to
the appalling Armenian massacres ut
ten years ago. The latter is an out
come of Turkish efforts at popular
coustituiioual government.
The \oung Turk party has been
practically driven to cover by the
strong movement against it, first
manliested among the troops at Con
stantinople. But tne Young Turks
claim to have the support of a large
proportion of the army, and deciare
ihai during the coming week they
will take steps to maintain parlia
ment and punish tne rebels.
Turkish troops, in large numbers
are moving in the direciion of tne
capital from Saloniki, Adrionople and
oluer points in European Turkey. Tne
coming week will disclose the real
purpose of tnis remarkable advance.
Confirmation has been received
here of tbe killing of two American
missionaries at Auana. The murder
ed missionaries were Mr. Rogers and
Mr. iMaurer. The others connected
with tne missions are safe, including
Mr. Christie, who is at Tarsus.
Three French warships are hurry
ing to Mersina, where the situation is
desperate. Foreigners and many
Christians have taken refuge in the
consulates. The local troops and tne
governor are doing their best to pro
tect the town, but there is great tear
that it cannot hold out much longer
against the invasion of the Moslems,
Tne American vice consul at Mer
siua, John Debbas, has been unable
to proceed to Adana, owing to the
interruption of communications. A
British warship is proceeding to Ai
exaudretta, which is threatened by
the Moslems. Several Armenian
farms in that neighborhood have been
destroyed. Alarm is felt at Kharput
because of serious depredations by
the Kurds in the surrounding vil
lages, although the town itself has
not been the scene of any particular
disorders.
Beirut, Syria.—A terrible uprising
has occurred at Adana. Street fight
ing has been going on for three days
and at leats 1,000 persons have been
killed. The city has been practically
destroyed by fire. American mission
aries, named Rogers and Maurer, the
latter from Hadjin, are dead. All
the other Americans are safe. The
British vice consul, Major Daughty-
Wylie, is among the wounded. He
was shot through the arm.
At Tarsus there was loss of life.
The Armenian quarter was destroy
ed. Four thousand refugees are
housed in the American mission. The
need of relief is urgen, for shortly
the fugitives will be on the verge of
starvation. Conditions in the vicinity
of Alexandretta also are most seri
ous.
HOME FOR FATHERLESS.
Over $2,500,C00 Left by Charles Ellis,
Who Killed, Himself.
•Philadelphia, Pa. —Under the will
of the late Charles E. Ellis# the mil
lionaire street railway magnate of
this city, who killed himself acciden
tally with a revolver on April 6, more
than $2,500,000 is given for tne es
\ablishment of a home for fatherless
girls. The will was probated, and,
after providing for the widow and his
married daughter, and for his house
hold servants, Mr. Ellis directed that
the residue of the estate be used for
the organization of a home for girls.
The home, the will directs, is to be
called the Charles E. Ellis Home for
Fatherless Girls, and is to he con
ducted along the same lines as Gi
rard College for Boys in this city.
•Mr. Ellis’ estate is valued at $5,000,-
000.
womeTresent attach.
Protest by 2,400 Female Employees of
the Government.
Washington, D. C.—A mass meet
ing of nearly all of the 2,400 women
employed in the bureau of engraving
and printing in this city was held to
protest against the published state
ment that the National Civic Feder
ation had named a committee to in
vestigate the morality of thq employ
ees of the executive department in
Washington, and that the committee
had determined to demand the dis
missal of at least fifty women em
ployed in the bureau. A committee
of the women employees was appoint
ed to take the matter up with the
newspaper minting the story.
LESS LIQUOR REVENUE.
Prohibition Said Not to be the Cause
Of the Decreae
Washington, D. C. —Prohibition has
had its effect, but the spread of the
prohibition wave is not by any means
the main cause of the decreased con
sumption of liquor in this country,
according to Colonel John G. Capers,
commissioner of internal revenue.
in discussing this subject Commis
sioner Capers named three separate
causes ahead of prohibition as re
sponsible, in his opinion, for putting
this result. These are: the influence
of the recent panic; the unsettled
condition of the liquor trade, pending
the final settlement of the conflict
over the marking vnd branding of
liquors under the pure food and drug-s
act; uncertainty a3 to the tariff law
and its effect on the liquor trade, and
finally—prohibition.
Colonel Capers said there was no
doubt about the fact that in recent
years the consumption of liquor had
decreased. In other words, as he ex
pressed it, the amount of distilled
spirits and fermented liquors with
drawn from distilleries and bonded
warehouses had shown a decrease.
This was proven by the actual sta
tistics of the production and with
drawal of liquors, and also by the
receipts of his office.
For the fiscal year ending June 30,
1908, the receipts of the bureau were
$251,665,950, a decrease as compared
with the collections of the preceding
year, of $18,000,000 in round numbers.
Furthermore, the receipts for the first
quarter of the current fiscal year show
a decrease of $7,000,000. If this de
crease is maintained, the total re
ceipts for this year will fall still be
low last year to the tune of $28,-
000,000. Colonel Capers, however, be
lieves the amount wil be made up,
and that the receipts this year will
reach $250,000,000.
Of course the largest item in the
receipts was from the tax on liquors.
Distilled spirits yielded the govern
ment $133,626,276; fermented liquors,
$58,747,680, and tobacco $49,862,764.
Other articles on which the govern
ment collects an internal revenue
duty are oleomargarine, adulterated
butter and renovated butter, but the
receipts from these sources is com
paratively . small.
GENERAL BUTLER DEAD.
Death’s Tocsin Summons Last Con
federate Cavalry General.
Columbia, S. C. —Matthew Calbraith
Butler of Edgefield, one of the last of
the confederate cavalry generals, died
at a local infirmary. For some weeks
General Butler has been ill, and has
been gradually growing weaker, and
for several days it has been known
that the end was near. General But
ler’s death was due to a complication
of diseases, induced by an old wound.
He lost a leg at Brandy Station, and
after recovery continued throughout
the war. His wound had not bothered
him up to a few months ago.
General Butler was born in 1836, of
a distinguished South Carolina fam
ily. He served with distinction
throughout the civil war, rising from
captain to major general of cavalry
in the confederate service. After the
war General Butler took a prominent
part in the movement to reclaim the
state to the democratic party, and
aided greatly in Hampton’s victory in
the great gubernatorial race of 1876.
In 1876 General Butler was elected
to the United States senate and serv
ed three terms. During the Spanish-
American war General Butler was
major general in the United States
army. After the war General Butler
was appointed a member of the Cu
ban peace commission.
He is survived by his widow and
three children, Captain M. C. Butler,
Jr., United States Army; Dr. F. W.
P. Butler of this city and Mrs. Mc-
Neely, wife of a naval officer. On
his seventy-fifth birthday General
Butler received extreme unction from
the Catholic Church. He died with
in fifty yards of the convention hall
in which the secession convention
met.
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
The Spanish cabinet has decided
definitely that the Spanish fleet shall
be reconstructed. The work will be
entrusted to British firms.
It is given out on high authority
that the salaries of the New Haven
railroad employees, which were cut
5 and 10 per cent a year ago, will
be restored In May. Salaries between
SI,OOO and $2,000 were cut 5 per cent
and those above, 10 per cent. Pres
ident Mellen’s out was 10 per cent.
George Harmon, aged 76, and Mrs.
Grace Dawson, aged 22, were mar
ried at Wichita, Kan. Mr. Harmon
is a wealthy widower. Mrs. Dawson’s
husband has known her since baby
hood. He declares he is marrying her
to legalize the disposal of his wealth,
as he wants her to get it without pos
, sible tangle or technicality interven
ing.
Captain Chichester of the steamship
Arapahoe, arriving in New York City
from Jacksonville and Charleston, re
ports having passed through immense
schools of mackerel while off the Del
aware capes and New Jersey coast.
There was school after school, each
containing millions of fish. One
school alone, according to Captain
Chichester, covered an area of more
than a square mile. He said he had
not seen as many fish together in
years.
With the crater belching great
clouds of smoke and cinders, Mount
Etna, Italy, is in active eruption. The
cinders descended in a fiery hail up
on the mountainside. The inhabitants
fear that this presages another dis
aster.
THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. ALVAH S. HOBART
Theme: The Unlisted Asset.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—The Rev. Dr. A.
S. Hobart, of Crozer Seminary,
preached Sunday morning in the Em
manuel Baptist Church, Lafayette
avenue and St. James place. His
subject was “The Unlisted Asset, - ’
and his text was Matthew 22:41-44:
“While the Pharisees were gathered
together Jesus asked them, saying:
‘What think ye of Christ? Whose
son is He?’ They say unto Him, ‘The
Bon qf David.’ He saith unto them,
‘How, then, doth David in spirit call
Him Lord, saying the Lord said unto
my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
till I make thine enemies thy foot
stool. If David then call Him Lord,
how Is He his son?’ And no man
was able to answer Him a wird,
neither durst any man from that time
forth ask Kim any questions.” Dr.
Hobart said:
Sometimes in the summer the ther
mometer runs up into the nineties,
and we call it hot weather, but we
take off our coats and attend to our
business and say to our friends: “This
is summer, but after all I rather like
summer. I do not see that the sum
mer is to be so much dreaded.” And
the next day the thermometer stands
just as it did the day before, but we
are nearly smothered, and we say:
“I cannot stand it at all. I think this
is about the worst climate; It is
enough to kill a man.” What is the
difference? The thermometer dees
not tell the whole story. To-day
there are only sixty degrees of hu
midity, but yesterday there were nine
ty. There is a certain unlisted ele
ment in the weather that the tbermom
eter does not make any account of,
but that unlisted element makes all
the difference in the world. A man
is sick and liis doctor tells that he
has an incurable disease and cannot
live, because the medical records do
not show a single case of recovery
from that particular disease. Never
theless the ma.i recovers completely,
and the only way the astonished doc
tor can accourt for it is by saying
that the man had a great fund of in
exhaustible vitality. That vitality is
the unlisted asset in the case.
This is the Idea I have in mind
when I speak to you concerning the
unlisted asset in Jesus. These people
wanted tc know certain things and
He wanted them to believe certain
things. There seemed to be some
doubt as to the Messiah, and Jesus
asked them what sort of a man they
thought the Mesaiah was going to be.
“Whose son will He be when He
comes?” and they said. “Why, Da
vid’s son.” Then He said, “Have ve
not read the psalm wherein David
said, The Lord said unto my Lord?”
In the Jewish realm no man would
ever call his sen “Lord.” How was
it? They did not knew. They found
in the Old Testament Scriptures that
there was an unlisted asset. Now,
history presents a similar problem.
Things have haepened that we cannot
account fer in the ordinary way. Be
fore, or soon after, A. D. 300, the pa
gan kings of Rome ceased to be, and
a confessedly Christian king sat in
the centre of the Roman Empire.
Now the teachers of that gospel did
not have philosqphy like the Remans
cr literary culture like the people of
Rome or Athens.
They suffered persecution and were
called “theoff-scouringof the world.”
They had no armies, nor temples, and
yet inside of 150 years they displaced
the Emperor on his throne by the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. How are you
going to account for that? Somehow
these untrained fishermen, and that
cast-out Pharisee of the Jewish eccle
siastical institution, had gone ahead
with the unlisted power and won
these marvelous victories. Something
was there besides, something greater
than a son of David. A humble peas
ant’s son in Palestine prophesied that
His name should be above everything
and that all the nations of the world
should know it and bow dov/n to it.
What do we see to-day? Why, the
statesmen of the world are being
guided by the fundamental principles
that that peasant taught. To-day the
philosophers of the world are slough
ing off all the speculations that are
net in harmony with the fundamental
conceptions and the peasant’s ideas
of God. All are admitting that they
must come to the recognition cf the
existence of an Infinite source and
personal God who controls all things,
and this is the specific statement of
Jesus when He said: “Pray, our
Father, who art in heaven.” Every
statement and every theory of the
sociologists of this time is pre-stated
in the language of the old Jewish
peasant’s son and every great princi
ple that guides us is stated better by
Him. When you look over the world
you find that where this Gospel has
gone the world has new conceptions
of man. Nowhere else do you find
the conception of man “in the image
of God” and standing in all funda
mental essentials on a common plat
form. It has given new conceptions
of man’s attitude toward God, of his
duty to his fellow man. There was
no conception of international law un
til Christianity brought it. And this
peasant’s son in Palestine prophesied
all this recognition of these princi
ples 1800 years before. What are
we to say about that? Is He more
than a peasant’s son or is there some
unlisted element there?
We must look around to find the
cause of this unaccounted for phe
nomenon of history. We have ex
hausted the assets of David’s son, and
we must find something else. Some
things, it is true, can be accounted
for as the son of David, but not all.
The times and the character of Jesus
will account for some, but there is a
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wicked, and He was a splendid reli
gious genius and we bow down to
Him pre-eminent in His sphere.” Will
it do? We will admit that the cir
cumstances and times did for Jesus
about all that could be done to make
Him pre-eminent as a moral teacher,
hut why did not other people—the
martyrs, the disciples—why didn’t
Paul rise to the same pre-eminence?
No man could lay a finger on Paul’s
life and say, “Here is a moral weak
ness that accounts for it.” If Jesus
was no more than a peasant’s son He
never could, then or since, have com
manded the respect of a single man
such as He has now. Suppose a man
came from England and wanted us
to start Spurgeon clubs in every town
in America and worship Spurgeon;
or suppose someone wanted us to
start Phillips Brooks clubs and be
come Brooksites, we would say,
“There is a sanitarium over there;
you had better go there.” You see
that if Jesus were nothing more than
a pre-eminent son of David He would
be on the same plane with Spurgeon
and Brooks. We will honor such
men and take counsel from their wis
dom, but never bow down to them.
And men would never bow down to
and worship Jesus Christ if He were
not something more than a son of
David. “But,” you say, “that hy
pothesis does not account for the fact.
“We admit the mystery, but there
is a certain unlisted element that we
cannot see yet.” Let us see what His
apostles say. Paul had his own the
ory when he said that He was “in th 9
form of God, yet He made Himself
of no reputation and took upon Him
the form of a servant, and was found
in the likeness of the flesh and suf
fered death, even the death of the
cross.” There is a notion of pre-ex
istence. That is Paul’s concepticn of
the unlisted asset, that pie-existing
glory with God. That does not an
swer the question, but it answers
something. He did what David never
did. He took on Him our form and
went back to accomplish the finish of
the work. In the Hebrews w r e read
that He was the “express image” of
God and “by Him all things consisted
and neid together.” So you have the
hypothesis of Hig being larger than
David’s son, who took on Him the
form of David’s son. Then we find
Jesus speaking with authority. “It
hath been said by men of old time,
do so and so, but I say unto you do so
and so.” Again, “I came down frsm
My Father, and all authority is given
unto Me and all judgment is given
unto Me that men may honor the Son
as they honor the Father,” and “he
that hath the Father hath the Son;
he that hath not the Son hath not
God.” It does not solve all the mys
tery, but it tells us cf a certain ele
ment of divinity about Him which no
son of David ever had.
Then again He says that whosoever
believes and follows Jesus will be
with God. That does not solve the
mystery, but it tells us that so far as
God can teach mankind He teaches
us by His Son Jesus Christ.
You say: “I am handicapped, be
cause people calling themselves
Christians have not Christianity
enough to distinguish them from the
rest cf the world,” Confine yourself
to those whom you will recognize as
genuine Christians, those w r hom you
would like to have pray with you
when you are sick. Ask these people,
"How is it you have managed to over
come where others have failed? How
is it that you have kept straight for
ward with a cheerful spirit where oth
ers were discouraged? And they
will tell you this: “Since I believed
in Jesus, a strange inside power has
come to me that has changed my af
fections, that has opened my eyes,
strengthened my courage, nursed my
.virtues, nerved my will and has kept
;me steadfastly going toward the ideal
[that I regret I nave followed so far
away.” I say that such testimony is
:the strongest testimony that this Son
of David has an asset of power that
He imparts to His people to give them
victory.
This is the New Testament expla
nation: He was the Son of God and
had in Himseif certain immeasurable
assets of divineness that belonged to
Him, not because He was the Son of
[David, but because He came to be
[the Son of David from on high, and
jbecause of that he has a claim to our
obedience and worship and confi
dence.
What sort of a Christ do you want?
You need a saviour. What do you
want Him to do? First, to forgive
you. Second, to purify yopr heart.
Third, to give you grace. Can any
body do it except it be the Son of
.David to come in touch with you, and
the Son of God to have power? I
have spoken these words to you this
morning that you might believe, not
only that Jesus is the Christ, but that
[Christ is the Son of the Living God,
and that believing in Him ye also
might have life.
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The Delineator for May.
In the May number of The Delin
eator Mabel Potter Daggett tells “How
the President Saved the Orphans.”
The article describes the dramatic in
cidents in the recent conference on
the care of dependent children. This
conference, which marked the prog
ress of The Delineator’s Child-Rescu®
Campaign to a point where It com
manded national help, has produced
remarkable results.
The fiction for the month includes
“We’ll Show 'Em & C 0.,” by Rictu
ard Le Gallienne. This Is a remark
able short story that will be appre
ciated by all who dream dreams of
high achievement.
The fashions for the month in
clude “May Day Dresses,” “The Prob
lem of the Tub Frock,” ‘The New"
Collars and Girdles” and gossip about
what is worn during the “Gay Month
of May In Paris.”