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Show THE ARMENIAN PEOPLE IN a recent widely quoted article written for the Boston Advertiser, Rev. James L. Barton, D.D., Foreign Secretary of the American Board and formerly president of Euphrates College in Harpoot, gives some concise and illuminating facts as to the nature and history of the Armenian people. We quote a few paragraphs: - "The Armenians, whose extermination by the Turks is now threatened, are one of the oldest races of history. The earliest Biblical mention of the land occupied throughout their entire historical period is the allusion to Ararat. Armenia furnished Tyre with horses and mules, as reported by Ezekiel, and the king of Armenia was an ally of Cyrus the Great in the overthrow of the Babylonians in the sixth century B.C. "Their own traditions take them back to Noah and make them members of the Japhetic branch of the human family. As a race they have a varied history. They were an ally of Rome in 67 B.C., and in 261 A.D. became again subject to Persia. Their last kingdom was in the Taurus Mountains, in Northern Cilicia, until 1375, when Armenia lost its last vestige of separate national existence. "They were the first race or nation to adopt Christianity as a national religion, and so the Armenian Church is the oldest of all national churches, dating back to the beginning of the fourth century. "Physically and intellectually the Armenians are fully equal to any of the races that occupy the Near East, and to most they are decidedly superior. Mr. J. Bryce and W. Y. Palgrave, as well as a host of other students of the race, speak of them as finely formed, quick of intellect and perception, and inclined to intellectual pursuits. They possess remarkable tact and skill in business matters and are enterprising and ambitious." PROF. TENEKEJIAN PROF. NAHIGIAN PROF. BOOJICANIAN PROF. SOGHIGIAN MARTYRED PROFESSORS OF EUPHRATES COLLEGE, HARPOOT A report published by the Outlook with reference to conditions in Harpoot says: "Of the American Mission College approximately two-thirds of the girl pupils and six-sevenths of the boys have been taken away to death, exile, or Moslem homes. Of the professors, four are gone and three are left. Professor Tenekejian had served the college thirty-five years, was representative of the Prot-o ^ t 3 ^ , tVh ^ t e 0 V e r n m e J l t - ^ Wa3 »™ted May 1; hair of head, mustache and beard pulled out in vain effort to secure damaging confessions; was starved and hung by arms for a day or night • severely beaten several times; taken out on road about June 20. killed in a general massacre Pro: feasor Nah.gian had studied at Ann Arbor and been on the college staff thirty three™art- t e s t ed about June 5. killed in same massacre with Professor Tenekejian. ProfessoV Boo^anfS studtedlS Edinburgh served the college sixteen years; arrested and tortured with Professor Tenekejian-alto had three finger nails pulled out by roots; killed in same massacre." Another professo/a Princeton KtUde'it'ATbe,Ca^e r"f.n 1^l'y deranKed from the tortures he witnessed and suffered Hlwas murdered beyond Malatia. Still another who had studied at Yale and at Cornell, afterflarful beltiniTana imprisonment in a dark cell, was taken to the Red Crescent Hospital for treatment Four of the mafl instructors also are known to have been killed on the road. our OI t n e m a le 22 ~~~-™•"• |
