The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1856-07-16
The,Trus civilirer. .a..,

u told Of a late missionary 10 Turkey,
thai, huding bis converts prescribed, in their
relations as business men, by the authorities
OF the church which they had left, he Dor.
rosVed ten thousand dollars, boueh, flour.
mill, and engaged in the making of bread,
in order 10 give employment TO his neo.
phytes. The bread he manufactured proved
so much superior 10 that sold al Constantine
pe-for il was there that he sought lis
marke'-'hai, beiote long. he had so large
demand Tor il as 10 give livelihood to
nearly all his converts. When the Eastern
war broke out, and the British troops landed
a Sculari, good bread could not, at first be
had for The soldiers. In This emergency, The
missionary stepped forward and offered TO
contract 10 furnish bread 10 .he English -
His tender was accepted and contract
signed. The Sultan, finding what good
bread was made for the British army, sent
for The bakers who supplied his own, and
compelled them TO initiate the missionary
In the Two years Of the war, the mill, thus
begun 10 feed few converts, earned thou.
sands of dollars, which have been worhily
dedicated, we believe, to building school,
houses in Turkey. ...
The same Missionary, visiting the bar
racks at Sculari, found the soldiers dying
there by hundreds, and so little care taken o
lhem--ihis was before Miss Nighlingae's
arrival---hat their linen often remained un-
changed for weeks. He found also that the
refuse clothes were cast into a separate
apartment, where they lay fostering, rotling
and ialntirg the atmosphere. He asked
why this was. The British authorities an.
swered that they could get nobody 10 wash
The clothes, for fear OF infection. He offered
Immediately 10 undertake The job. But the
prejudice of the Turks proved greater than
even he, who had lived among them for
eighteen years, had been led 10 expect. They
cried out, when they saw the clothes, "The
plague, the plague" and refused 10 work.
In this crisis, he invented q rude washing
machine, which he fixed on the side of
running stream, SO tina, the articles might be
hand labor. After this there was no diff
Guilty. The lsbor-sSving washing machine
of the Yankse. Missionary is still in use a,
Scutari, and will probably remain SO, while
,herei is washing to be done, even though the
original necessity for il has passed away.
A man, who does acls like these, is true
civilizer. Progress never goes backwards.
A people, who have once practically seen
even the rudesi improvements on the imple-
meuts they have used, are not apt TO return
TO their old, clumsy way of acting. To teach
even few how 10 make better bread than
before, or how TO save labor and avoid infec-
lion in washing. is sowing broadcast the
seeds Of fu'ure civilization. All the wheat
in the world has come, we are told, from a
iew grains that rpenet, ages ago, on the
table-land of Central Asia. Whether this be
true, or not, il is certain that the millions oil
horses, who now swarm on the plains of
South America, have sprung from animals
tnrned loose by the early navisators. Mis-
sionares have often been considered use
less, and probably they do not always pro.
duce apparent effects commensurate with
their cost, but when missionary goes forlb
in The way this one did in Turkey, introdu-
cling material civilization, side by side with
the spiritual and moral influence of Christi
aniiy, he cannot but do good. II is the true
way 10 spread civilization --Phila Ledger