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Show TALES OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL In juvenile literature some remarkable talcs are told of Christian boys captured by Moslems and sold into, slavery; how these boys preserved the faith of their parents, so' that no persuasion could tempt nor fear of. punishment induce them to abandon the practice of their religion. It remained for Edht-m Pasha to break -into this long line of youthful Christians and arouse the doubt that all of them were like the youths described in the Sunday school book. . ' Edhem Pasha died in Constantinople the other day. lie was one of the most distinguished soldiers of the Ottoman empire, but a most cruel man. lie is charged with being the instigator of the Armenian Arme-nian massacres in 1893. This Turkish field marshal was born of Christian parents on the island of Chio and was sold into slavery as a boy after a massacre on the island in which Turkish soldiers killed 23.000 men, .women and children. Edhem's owner was a Turkish ""general, who finally gave him his freedom and educated him at Paris. As in the case of many who sell their soul for the world and its vanities, Edhem Pasha prospered and waxed fat under the patronage of the sultan. God permits such apparent reversals of justice to remind us that the thing we should seek is the kingdom king-dom of heaven and not the things of this world which perish ; and the promise of eternal happiness to those who suffer injustice and persecution for His sake. Better for Edhem Pasha had he perished in the Christian massacre with his parents on the island of Chio.' The fame he achieved at Plevna lives only for time. His child soul would live for eternity. |