Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-05-26
SUNDAY READING.

the popular inclination to cape at what are
called miracles and accept with something akin
- stolidity the constant wonder of our own
personal existence and the daily blessing OF
sunlight and healthful air. We cannot help
liking the higher and more intellectual spirit
with which men of the purest and loftiest type
Of religious mind, like Emerson, regard these
questions We do not sympathise with those
exacting people who are forever seeking after
4 sign" Your Shepherd looks out of his
window and sees how day by day the
wild weeds and the grasses grow; he
notes the exquisite verdure of the leaves;
he notes the bounding growth of the
fruits and flowers which ara basking in the
luxuriant sunlight; and grateful for the en-
enlargement of such a profound Clover of the
good" as the Sage of Concord, he deplores
With him that narrow ignorance which stares
ut the story of turning water into wine, and is
''heedless of the stupendous fact of his own
personality" And as to blessings, is not the
whole wide air full of them these sunny days2
But your Shepherd is not going to preach
you a connected sermon to-day. The wealth
or is getting warm, and a cold collation. of di
gcstible tid-b bits is good enough for this Occa-
sion At all events such gathering of odds
and ends, scraps and remnants, is all he pro-
poses to furnish forth withal
Apropos of the Eastern Question as posi-
bic cause Of war between England and Russia
IS the consideration of a more pacific subject
than that of the Treaty of San Stefano and its
attendant complications. We have reference
to tho labors of certain enthusiastic Ameri-
cans in Turkey who went abroad under the
auspices of the American Board of Commits
,ioucrs for Foreign Missions. AS to what
these missionaries to the land of the Moslem
have done, we are informed by no less ac'
ccptable authority than the British Quarterly
Review. BY that highly espectable periodical
we aIa made acquainted with some facts which
are calculated to make lis feel proud OF the la
bors If our fellow countrymen in that not very
promising land of Pashas and Softas, Serag
hos and Bowstrings. The narration is much
too comprehensive even for synopsis in these
short columns; all we can do is to preserve
some of the outlines, as we come upon them,
hap-hazard, il a very hurried way.
There are as many as two hundred and
ninety cannon schools, fifteen Boarding
Schools for Girls, several High Schools for
young men; seven Theological Semiuaries and
three Colleges The first of these was estab-
Nshcd at Constantinople i'll 1862 The estab-
hshuleut was munifoently endowed by Mr..
Chas r. Robert of New York who has given,
Rrst and last, about $500, 900 toward it's per,
fcctiou
The great success of those missions is mainly
due to the combination, in the character of
the clo.gymon, of the functions of physician
with those of the missionary. DR. Grant |
was constantly thronged with visitors"
Those relieved from suffering were ready to |
Hiss his feet or even his shoes at the door.
Tie gained great repute by the removal of cata-
rac's aud the consequent restoration of sight.
DR. Lohdell event everywhere armed with
pills and lancet. He confessed that DR..
Mott had told him truly when he said to him
that ne could do twice as much good in Tur-
key with a knowledge of medicine as he could
without it. DR.. West, a graduate of Yale,
died after eighteen years of faithful service in
Turkey. He performed some wonderful oper-
ations under very adverse circumstances
The account before us says: cat the time of
his death, DR.. West had performed about
fourteen hundred operations on the eye alone
Doctor Norris also performed many important
operations calling to his aid the blessing of
cAloroform which seemed to create much won
der among the natives.
Further along in this interesting article we
ire informed that 1.-The first efforts of the
Americans to make the women sharers in in
cloctud progress and refinement were met
With opposition and often with derisive laugh
er. Let us ask them what have the Ameri-
ans accomplished in Turkey i'll respect to the
in womenl We answer, They
ave created a now public sentiment in favor /
II tho education of women" Again, this
writer says; This new public sentiment is |
hown by the interest taken in the schools "
hat have been established by the Americans I
specially for the education of girls. Annual I
of these schools are held, and it O
on these occasions that the public sympa-
ny maoiIests itself. Pashas, civil and mill
lry officers of high rank, the eccesiastics and
eaithy men of the different nationalities, are