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Rh Besides, it is a great blessing still to some of the widows and orphans of the martyred Christians to be under the shelter and instruction of local and temporary orphanages lately established in various centers of Armenia, and conducted by the American Missionaries and German Sisters.

All the missionaries in Turkey, being perfectly assured of their personal safety, stood firm in their positions. Most of them have written detailed reports, and thus helped the circulation of the sad news in the civilized parts of the world. Many of them did actual work among the stricken families and churches, and some of them rightly deserved the name of "hero" for their deepest sympathy and generous shelter and self-sacrificing help, and unfatigued labors for the sufferers.

Many Armenian refugees found great help on their way to the United States—especially in France and in Switzerland—and on their arrival to this land of liberty they received temporary shelter, aid, sympathy and work almost everywhere from the Christian men and women who unanimously express their desire for "something to be done to save the long-suffering Armenian nation," at the same time almost always excusing themselves for the governmental policy of the United States, as if "Monroe" was greater than Jesus Christ, and his so-called "Doctrine" was more sacred than the principle of Universal Love; and that politics were more essential than the everlasting Kingdom of Heaven.