Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-11-13 | Page 6 | American Women Missionaries at Mercy of Brutal Turks If Massacre History Repeats

American Women W men Missionaries Miss at Mercy of Brutal Turks if Massacre History History Repeats Repeals t i i Christians in Turkey Dread Awful Results If the Unspeakable Unspeakable Un J Turk Renews Hiss Bin Age Long Warfare With the Followers of the Naz Nazarene fren-e fren but the Sul- Sul qi j tarts fans Fear of the Stars and Stripes May Save J. J 1 American Men and andr Women THERE HERE ARE ARENOW NO NOW W OF OUR MISSIONARIES IN IN TURKEY TURKEY W WOMEN OMEN AND GIRLS f Turkeys Turkey's s plunge Into the tho war zone ono ODO may cost the tho United l d States hun hun- hundreds of American lives Jives and millions ns 0 ot oc d dollars in property interests It It- It m retard try iy 1 directors of mission work tho pro progress prepress ress of Chri Chriatian- Chriatian t 1 it ity in tho the Far Fast East more more than any o 0 of f the p previous o j us internal wars war or massa errs that blacken the history of Tl Turkey u urs Every state stale in m the tho union anu anxiously awaits th the of o in m inA A Turkey for for- every overy state has sont sent m men cn and women and monc money to tho the misSion mia mia- sion f fields of Asia Minor There are arc 21 l 12 American missionaries missionaries of which aro arc women and and girls now note in Turkey threatened with wj wi tit th destruction if tho the present disturb disturb- of tho American mission workers y unco anew is fanned tanned into a holy war Many have hayo lived iv-cd in in- inthe the ER East t lor bor years Jelu sonic of them are arc descendants of the tho pioneers pioneers pio pio- io lui missionaries who carried the tho Stars Star and Stripes into Turkey in 1810 1310 Through the American board boar of missions millions milhous of dollars havo avo been een expended in building churches bo hospitals p H Js Sunday schools industrial schools school S J and printing plants The American fla flap flag ma may protect the American missionaries from Turkish Turkish Turk Turk- i ish h atrocities but UIo thu thousands of native nativo Christians Christiana educated d in American methods anI and l liu living iu according to American ideas must surely surely surely-be be sacrificed if the racial and wd religious hatred of the Moslem vents its itself lf on the Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian and the works ot of the Christian Christian