| Show Character of f the Armenian If I the Greek is characterized by his his intelligence by his worship of ot plastic beauty and by his dream of harmonious and noble life the Armenian is characterized characterized charac charac- by an indestructible tenacity of faith in himself himsel by byan an open attachment to his traditions and national beliefs and by the worship of a simple and laborious life writes Archag nian in the International l Monthly for February The family among the Armenians Armenians Armenians Ar Ar- has preserved the rigid purity and the pious piou discipline o of the ancient patriarchal conditions The Armenian church is perhaps that one among all al the others which has best preserved the thO simple spirit of ot the ch church founded by Jesus It I is this passion for simplicity which has sometimes brought the Armenian Armenian Armenian Ar Ar- into with the opposition Byzantine tine spirit devoted as as' this is to a complicated complicated com com- theology theolog and to a luxurious and refined art The Armenians were the promoters of the iconoclastic movement of Byzantium and there are yet sonic some Armenians who constitute the nucleus of tho that t modern sect of which contains the germs of some of the principles principles principles prin prin- which later became the basis of of the Protestant church I have put Its Is tenacious faith in itself at the head of the characteristics of the Armenian race and In fact nothing else Is so strong with wih it I as the attachment to its native soil soi and to its ethnic traditions traditions tons and the resolve to defend these to the death The great Corneille Cornele without knowing it i. i paid a compliment to the therace therace therace race in choosing to magnify Christian Christan heroism an Armenian figure Against the Roman as against the Persian Persian Persian Per Per- sian against the Arab as against the Turk the Armenian has always shown the firmness of ot and nd his spirit of sacrifice Quie Quite recently during the massacres when wen the Turks tried to force the Armenians under threats of ot death to embrace the whole race manifested the spirit of Hundreds of girls girla threw themselves into the rivers and over precipices to escape apostasy and shame and aged priests priest ha have ve been seen who with wih a a stoical courage courage courage cour cour- age preferred to be killed outright or roasted at a slow fire fre rather than to renounce the faith of Ui their thir ir fathers |
