Shall This Nation Die
By: Rev. Joseph Naayem
An Historical Essay On The Assyro-Chaldean Christians
By: Rev. Gabriel Oussani
St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, New York
Oct. 1st, 1920
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Never in the past have the American people had such opportunity of extending a helping hand to oppressed Christian nations as they have at the present time in Upper Mesopotamia.
The sufferings of the Belgian, French, Polish, Serbian and Austrian peoples during the great war completely fade away by comparison with what the helpless countries of the Near East suffered and endured, and are still enduring, from the Turkish and Kurdish ravages and cruelties.
The excellent work done by the Near East Relief Committee has accomplished much; but a great deal more must be done, and done quickly, if the Christianity of the Near East, and specially of Mesopotamia and Persia, is to be rescued from immediate and total destruction. The well-merited relief so generously extended to the suffering Armenians has in a way so completely focused the attention and the generosity of the American people on this unfortunate race, that the other, -- smaller, but just as unfortunate, -- races of the Near East have been to a great extent lost sight of.
These smaller Christian nations, and particularly the Assyro-Chaldeans, suffered as much at the hands of the Turks as the Armenians, and proportionately more, and thus deserve as much sympathy and help.
