Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities - A Reign of Terror; From Tartar Huts to Constantinople Palaces; Centuries of Oppression Moslem and Christian Sultan and Patriarch Broken Pledges Followed by Massacre and Outrage; The Red Cross to the... #225305

Near the foot of a famous mountain there lived I 500 years ago, in a little country about 400 miles square, a people numbering, perhaps, In the turmoil of the centuries they had been scattered until their anecs tral valleys and mountain slopes have largely passed into other hands. They still preserve, however, the racial characteristics of that early time, and look back with intense yearning to that olden time and those familiar places. In face, figure and bearing, they are remarkably attractive. It is said that their personal resemblance to the supposed physical type of our Lord is probably more striking than that of any other race. In the simplicity of their faith and the earnestness of their character, these people are reminders of the early Christian Church. The bravery of their men and the chastity of their women are proverbial. They cherish the Bible as the most precious of their possessions and guard i it all the more sacredly when to do so involves the hazard of their lives. They are unarmed and do harm to none, they only seek to tend their flocks, till their fields, and conduct their trade in quietness and peace.