. Christian herald and signs of our times . posiin to judge the pop-ular eeling. During therece troubles, many per-?sonsrossed the border in-to F sia and Russia, not-witl:anding the prohibi-toryilaws, which forbidWie|bjects of the Sultaneavg the country, un-less ith the consent ofthe! vernment. Lately,how er, as we are nowadv d by letters from Ar-isen, the policv of the80 * r n m e nt has beenChafed in this respect,andj is said passports arefree granted to Armenians desiring toleavthe country. Whether this changeof ft icy would continue, were the emi-£rit i to assume large proportions, isj)°u
. Christian herald and signs of our times . posiin to judge the pop-ular eeling. During therece troubles, many per-?sonsrossed the border in-to F sia and Russia, not-witl:anding the prohibi-toryilaws, which forbidWie|bjects of the Sultaneavg the country, un-less ith the consent ofthe! vernment. Lately,how er, as we are nowadv d by letters from Ar-isen, the policv of the80 * r n m e nt has beenChafed in this respect,andj is said passports arefree granted to Armenians desiring toleavthe country. Whether this changeof ft icy would continue, were the emi-£rit i to assume large proportions, isj)°u ul, but steps have already beentfkt by THE CHRISTIAN HFKALD to as- million Armenian Christians, of whom alarge proportion would be quick to seizeany opportunity to leave the land of theirfathers and escape from the cruel Moslemoppression that has trodden them underfoot for centuries. Who is to be the Mosesto lead this persecuted people to a land offreedom and liberty? Even if Turkey con-sented that theyshould go, itwould re-quire avast. MGR. HARUTUNI VEHABIDIAN, ARMEN Whose Wisdom and Sagacity Aver close of the present summer, the exodusfrom Armenia may have begun in earnest. It is estimated that there are in the dis-turbed districts over three quarters of a IAN PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE. ?ted Armenian Disaster in Palestine. amount of monev to transport them anyconsiderable distance. But there are sev-eral available avenues of egress, that mightmake the exodus less difficult than would at first appear. Those in the districts tothe north and east could cross to Persiaand Russia. In both these countries, Ar-menians are prosperous and in the southern and western sectionsmight find their way to the island of Cy-prus, where 200,000 Armenians could beaccommodated, and where they woulddoubtless be safe, under British others, perhaps in considerable num-bers, would find their way to England andthe United States. Already the emi-gration project is bein
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