The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-28


again and taking his::staff he places
his bleeding hand into the bleeding
hand of one that was cruciied
on Calvary and starts out
into the wilderness and night
darkness. He has given up
everything--this poor Mohammedan
Tartar--but he has not given up the
Lord Jesus Christ. He comes to
Marash to the missionaries. He SAYS,
81 have heard Of Christ, and l be-
lieve on Him as my Saviour. Will
you baptize me ?" "No !" they say,
"not here in aIash-the Moham-
medans will kill you. But the man
insists and finally they take him up
into the mountains 20 miles away, to
the city of Zeitoun where there are
no Mohammedans and where, strange
TO say, they have steadily resisted the
Turkish rule and sent away or killed
the governors which have been placed
over them, and there they baptize
him.
Under such circumstances it is not
to be marvelled at, as remarked be-
fore, that the public profession of the
christian faith by Turk is practi
cal impossibility. 1t is crime against
society and the government, no less
odious than high treason would be
with US, and punishable BY death.
But at the same time it is we'll
known fact with the missionaries,
which they are obliged to keep secret,
that a considerable number of the
educated higher class of Mohamme-
dams are reading the Bible, and ac-
its truths, You walk down
the street with one of the missionaries
and he will say to you, "Do you see
that man coming J"
eyes"
Well. he is Mohammedan, but he
has sent to us for a Bible, and now
the Mohammedans complain that he
is never seen in their place of
worship. They don't know the
reason and if they should happen to
find out they would certainly kill him,
and he knows it, and so we dare not
come near him nor he us. But he
seems to be trying to be a christian,
and there are hundreds like him,
and when the proper time comes,
that is when England withdraws her
hand from the support of the Turkish
Government and lets it fall to the
ground and the Moslem tyranny of
belief falls with it, these men will
come forth and make it known to the
astonishment of all Turkey and the
world that they are christians. And
what the result will be it is not easy
to foresee. That is what the Mis-
sionaries are waiting for and the
whole christian world should be anx-
ious to see, and it is bound to came.
But to resume our journey. We
spent about ten days at Marash, and
started one Monday morning for
Aintab. The night before although
we knew that we must rise half
past two and have breakfast at three,
in order to make the next days Jour-
ney Of 81 miles before sunset, still,
it was slow work getting to bed. And
when after singing "My country It's
of thee, Sweet Land of Liberty" and
"I'm a pilgrim and Pm a stranger
the only hymns that we sang that
really expressed our feelings and did US
good all the time we were gone, and
which we sang with more pathos the
farther we got away from home, on
the Pyramus and the Jordan, around
the solitary tomb Noah, and from
Dan, clear down through the country
to- Beersheba, we finally got off to
bed, we had just time enough to find
out how sleepy we were when the bell
rang for breakfast. We were all on
hand, even to the baby, ate e'our
went out to look after the
horses, and wake up the Turkish
Government who was lying on the
floor of the college recitation room,
and about half-past three we had said
goodbye" and were going down the
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