. The literary digest. he sum named exorbitant, but it is fraudulently ob-tained ; for every one ought to know that the Methodist ChurchSouth was built upon slavery, and that the war was for the per-petuation of slavery, and that it is merely a play upon wordswhen it is said that the Methodist Church South was not members were, almost to a man, in sympathy with the Con-federacy just as truly as were any other of the Southern people ;and while it can not be said that the church, as an organization,was hostile to the Government, it ought to be enough to say thatthe majority of its me
. The literary digest. he sum named exorbitant, but it is fraudulently ob-tained ; for every one ought to know that the Methodist ChurchSouth was built upon slavery, and that the war was for the per-petuation of slavery, and that it is merely a play upon wordswhen it is said that the Methodist Church South was not members were, almost to a man, in sympathy with the Con-federacy just as truly as were any other of the Southern people ;and while it can not be said that the church, as an organization,was hostile to the Government, it ought to be enough to say thatthe majority of its members were hostile. The institution itselfwas hostile, having slavery at the root of its organization. DR. HEPWORTHS INVESTIGATION INARMENIA. REV. DR. GEORGE H. HEPWORTH, who was sent toArmenia several months ago by the New York Herald toinvestigate the massacres of two years ago and report thereon,has concluded his mission and returned to this country. WhenDr. Hepworth went out the fear was expressed in many REV. DR. GEORGE H. HEPWORTH. and especially among the religious journals (see Literary Digest,December 4, 1897), that the investigation would be one-sidedand of little value, since Dr. Hepworth went out in the employof a journal that had apparently committed itself to the defenseof the Sultan under all circumstances. But Dr. Hepworths let-ters from Armenia, and especially his later ones in which hesummed up the situation as he found it, have materially changedthe views of those who had pronounced his mission a failurefrom the start. It is conceded by most that Dr. Hepworth didcreditable service in getting at the truth of the situation inArmenia, that he brought to light some valuable facts, and thathis conclusions, on the whole, are entitled to grave conclusions are, in brief, that the Armenian massacreswere caused by the Armenian revolutionists. These men, it is Vol. XVI., No. 10] THE LITERARY DIGEST. 289 said, stirred up the villages of the
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