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236 THE AMERICAN MISSIONARIES
from the Porte would be by setting in motion con-
sular and ambassadorial machinery. On this sub-
ject, however, least said, soonest mended ; though
many stories might be told.
Mr. Barkley, in the work just referred to, gives
a very unfavourable account of the Armenian
Protestants ; and, undoubtedly, it cannot be denied
that members of the body could be found, whose
character and motives were no better than his
description. But my deliberate opinion is that he
applies to the whole body language which is true
only of the worst specimens; and the conduct of
the Protestants during the recent years of massacre
emphatically and triumphantly disproves his esti-
mate of them. The truth seems to me to be that
Mr. Barkley could not stand the welcome which
they gave him, as he arrived at Kaisari, when a
band of about sixty Protestants were on the outlook
to receive him outside the city—"old men, middle-
aged men, boys, small and great, and even quite
little children "—who all saluted him as a " Brodder".
They escorted him to the mission-house, " all
showing plainly by their scared look that they
expected to be kicked a little by every Turk they
met" ; but nothing worse befell them in the streets
than a chorus of " Giaours " and unquotable curses
of the Turkish style.
It is, certainly, not pleasant to be saluted as
from the Porte would be by setting in motion con-
sular and ambassadorial machinery. On this sub-
ject, however, least said, soonest mended ; though
many stories might be told.
Mr. Barkley, in the work just referred to, gives
a very unfavourable account of the Armenian
Protestants ; and, undoubtedly, it cannot be denied
that members of the body could be found, whose
character and motives were no better than his
description. But my deliberate opinion is that he
applies to the whole body language which is true
only of the worst specimens; and the conduct of
the Protestants during the recent years of massacre
emphatically and triumphantly disproves his esti-
mate of them. The truth seems to me to be that
Mr. Barkley could not stand the welcome which
they gave him, as he arrived at Kaisari, when a
band of about sixty Protestants were on the outlook
to receive him outside the city—"old men, middle-
aged men, boys, small and great, and even quite
little children "—who all saluted him as a " Brodder".
They escorted him to the mission-house, " all
showing plainly by their scared look that they
expected to be kicked a little by every Turk they
met" ; but nothing worse befell them in the streets
than a chorus of " Giaours " and unquotable curses
of the Turkish style.
It is, certainly, not pleasant to be saluted as