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A Symposium 123
of the world; and then they lift up their hands and say: "There is
but one God and Mohammed is His prophet." I have often been
asked why the Armenians are treated as they are now. I know only
one reason, and that is because we believe Christ to be the Son of
God, and we will not be converted into Mohammedan Unitarianism,
Some years ago in the City of New York there was a Christmas
entertainment in our school. There were some eighteen different
nationalities represented in that school, and every one marched into
the entertainment room with his flag. I didn’t have a flag to carry.
I had my Bible on my breast, and when it was my turn to say a few
words, I said: "Friends, I have no flag that I can call my flag. This
is my flag, and for the sake of this flag, for the sake of this Bible,
my ancestors have lost everything, and have suffered every hardship;
they lost their goods, lost their homes, lost their property, lost their
all; and then they began to go toward the mountains and tried to
build new cities and to found a new Armenia so that they might
preserve the free worship of God and keep the New Testament." And
then I said: "Thank God that I had ancestors like that, who were
willing even to lose their flag that they might keep the Bible, because
if they had not done that I would have had no chance to be con-
verted and to know Jesus Christ as my Lord and my Redeemer!"
A Nation Suffering and Starving
That is the Armenian nation, and that has been our history for the
last seventeen centuries. During the last twenty years I have seen
three Armenian massacres. One of them was twenty years ago, in
the northern part of Asia Minor, when about three hundred thousand
Armenians were destroyed in six months. The second was about nine
years ago, in the southern part of Asia Minor, when some thirty
thousand Armenians were destroyed in about three days. The third
is this one: the missionaries who have returned to this country from
Armenia say that four hundred thousand boys and girls have been
sold into Mohammedan homes, and hundreds of thousands of
Armenians have starved to death, and their bones are scattered all
over the deserts. The other day a missionary from Asia Minor was
speaking in a meeting in Columbus, Ohio, and he took out a piece of
a skull from his pocket and said: "This is from the skull of an
Armenian on his way to the desert. And you can go around in that
country everywhere and pick up the skulls and bones of the Armenians
who were taken from their homes and who starved to death." About
a hundred thousand of us have found refuge in this country. God
bless this country, and God keep it free! The United States of
America has some of her most loyal citizens among those who hardly
can speak English, because they know what it is to be under persecu-
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