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Rh the Armenian ministers tell to their smitten and scattered flock when they inquire about the cause of their long neglect? What would you think if you had fallen into the hands of a wolf, and seen your older and stronger brothers stand by with folded arms and watch your agonies in cold blood?

The financial relief was necessary and exceedingly helpful in its time; but who does not know that the Armenian needs something more and something different? If the little bread given by a few Christians is taken as the full satisfaction in the conscience of Christendom, we are regretfully obliged to disturb the tranquility of that conscience, and solemnly declare before God and men that Armenia needs more than a morsel of bread. What greater need has ever been shown to the Church of Christ to supply? What more sacred cause was ever presented to the spiritual soldiers of the heavenly kingdom to pray and to fight for?

Going one step further, what are the Mohametans thinking about the sincerity of Christian fellowship, and about the essence of Christian religion? Many Turks were heard to cry, even at the moment of their most bloody deeds, "Now where is your Christos? Let him come and take you out of our hands!" and the helpless victims groaned in their souls and said "My God! why hast Thou forgotten me?" This is something that the enemies of Christianity would gladly grasp and use it against Christianity. This is something that true and zealous Christians, the advocates and protectors of our holy doctrines, must take