And what did He really teach? Not one word of
Scripture was written by His hand. The spirit of Christ--this is the
important thing. The letter killeth, the spirit giveth life. Did He not
caution us to look not to Himself but to God? "Why callest thou me good?
One there is who is good, even God" ... "Not those who say, 'Lord,
Lord,' but those who do the will of My Father which is in heaven."
Self-defense is a duty which civilized man owes to civilization. Will
you tell me that the hundreds of thousands of Armenians who, making no
resistance, have perished like sheep at the hands of the Turks, were
better men than the four thousand who fled to the mountains and fought
off their persecutors till help arrived? Read of the heroic defense,
when for fifty-three days the men of that gallant band, with a few
rifles, saved their women and children from worse than death. I say
these men performed a duty to God and man--to the Turk himself, into
whose black heart they shot more virtue and honesty than ever were
implanted by the hundreds of thousands who died like sheep.
Civilized man must maintain himself, else the world will relapse into
barbarism.
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