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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4511, 20 June 1883, Page 2

A copy of Moody tod Sankey'i voksM or hymns Uteljrrewbed one of lsti post offices in Armenia to the address ot an American missionary. tA Daily flews correspondent states that the book pi? W?" ?, nder th« eye of Btkhiiieeili Uttendi, the GroTernor-Genersl's futotnm who knows a few worit o ( Eimlith. Ha was all the sharper on this ocomioo, b«oaasahehad very recently pus by iu»d* Te»tenee a book oonsistinfl; of letters from one of the New York papers, the author ot which roundly denoaneed the mis. goTernmeqt he had witnessed in Armenia daring the campaign of 1877. ■And this rolnme was addressed to the same quarter as the present hymn-book '• vo K s, exclaimed Bnkhsheesh Efifendi, as ho turned over Ihe learea. "'Hold the Fort!" What fort? Trewhery, as Hire! May Satan sciae them!" They were patriotic songs for the use of the Armenians those songs, and the mnsioal notation proved it; and that nartienlar »ong, "Hold the Port," mast We VT tfaKS \° ?2 »}«nded insnrreoiioß. & "Hold the Fort" was out <mt by order of llukhsheesh, and the expurgated fOIIBM sent to its destination.