The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-21

respect, inspired in them by the gos-
pei of Christ, superior to their own
conquerers in all manly character and
attainment. 1t was grand 1t made
one feel that missionary work was not
a failure, that every cent expended
for 20 years, every tear, every sigh,
every drop of blood wrung from the
hearts of those missionaries, now lying
side by side in the christian burial
place had brought forth most glo-
gious harvest, not of one single soul
for each of them, but a soul for every
blade of grass that waved over their
graves-a multiplying, unending har-
vest that shall go on while the world
lasts and there are human souls to
save. 1t made one even feel that the
sacrifice Of so much talent and
christian culture of mind and heart
as have gone forth from our homes
and church, here in Owosso, to bury
itself out of in the darkness and soli-
tude of another world, perhaps never
to come back to us, were not too
great a sacrifice when it can bring
forth such immense and eternal re-
suits. Here, for instance, was an
Armenian who had risen by inherent
worth of character to a responsible
position in the government-very un-
usual for an Armenian to occupy such
place. They came to him almost
daily with schemes and measures
which they wished put through the
government, and, as a matter OF
course, brought bribes with them.
But he refused them. His awakened
christian conscience would not allow
him to soil his hands with them,
though every officer in the kingdom
might do it. And these Mohammedan
Turks whose pure religion and saint
ly practices and angelic character is
the delightful theme of free thinkers
and rattle-headed sentimentalists-
who are too far removed ever to
know what is the real truth about
them-they stand off in amazement
and utter inability to comprehend
this simple illustration Of the power
of christian principle to make man
incorruptibly honest and pure in his
business dealings. Another man with
wide awake, business.like air, who
might have passed for Yankee in
the streets of New York with diff
ferent suit of clothes on, was treas.
urer of the missionary funds, and al
though he had committed to him at
times trusts amounting to more than
his whole yearly income and larger
amounts even placed in his hands
than he had ever looked upon at one
time, not a dollar of it had been mis-
appropriated. A young man sitting
beside us, they said, was the wealthiest
man in the church, and as generous
as he was wealthy. He was worth
about SIS, 900, equivalent to half a
million perhaps with us. And yet
saw the house in which he lived. II
was built of mud bricks, one.story
covered with straw roofing, and dirt
on the top of that--and l though,
when / looked at it that there was
probably no horse in Owosso, SC
utterly lost to all self-respect, that he
would accept of it as stable. Well
but why didn't he build better house;
Oh, the government the Turkish
government that is the trouble and
always will be SO long as it exists,
which everyone hopes, except the
Englishman who has money invested
in it and even large element among
the Turks themselves, will not be
long. 1t seems to me the creates,
mistake, for the cause of civilization
and christianity and of common righ
and justice, that when those Russian:
were let loose upon the Turks ano
sweeping everything before them into
the Bosphorus, England did not hole
off and wait until the Turkish power
was shattered in pieces, never more
to lift up its head on European sol
nor to grind down with oppressive
heel the people of Asia, and then