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122 What Has Been Done for These People
shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? and how shall
they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they
hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be
sent?" May the Lord help us to do our part with all our heart! Amen.
THE ARMENIANS
By REV. M. M. AIJIAN of Detroit
This afternoon I was calling at the oflfice of a man down-town,
and I asked him if he knew how to spell the name Armenian.
He said he certainly did, because he saw so much of it lately in
the papers. A few years ago, in Detroit, I was talking with the
principal of one of the public schools, and when he knew that I was
an Armenian, he said: "Where is Armenia?" And then he began to
answer his own question in this way: "Is it somewhere in the Balkan
States?" I was ashamed to have to say that it was not, and I tried
to draw a map of Asia Minor and tell him where Armenia was; but
today almost every reader of the daily papers knows where Armenia
is. It is that northeastern portion of Asia Minor just south of
Caucasus.
First to Accept Christianity
The Armenians were the first people in the world who accepted
Christianity as their national religion; and the Armenian alphabet
was invented for the special and definite purpose of translating the
Bible into their language. And our nation, even more than the Jews,
can be spoken of as the nation which has been baptized with blood
and with fire. The Jews have been persecuted for the last twenty
centuries because they rejected Christ and crucified Him on Calvary.
The Armenians, on the other hand, have suffered for the last eighteen
centuries, because they accepted that crucified Christ as the Redeemer
of the world. All the Armenians are by no means thoroughly con-
verted; nevertheless as a nation when the test has come we have,
through the grace of God, stood the trial and proved that we would
even shed our last drop of blood rather than turn our back on the
name of Christ Jesus.
The Mohammedans are the Unitarians of the East. The Moham-
medan believes that Christ was the best man in the world, and
moreover, that He was the Spirit of God, so that He could not be
crucified; and when the time came that the Jews wanted to crucify
Christ, He ascended to heaven and they got hold of a Jew who
looked very much like Jesus and crucified him. Moreover, they be-
lieve that Christ is coming back to this earth to be the final judge
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