The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-20
ANGELS nISSION.
It Is Said to Be Particularly in the
Interest of Foreign Missionaries.

Ann Arbor, Mich, April 19.-Severa
facts have been developed here since
Dr. James 3 Angeles appointment and
his departure for the south. which
makes it apparent that his mission tc
Turkey is of a special nature. similar
TO that which he executed in China in
1880. and particularly in the interest OF
American missionaries who have been
prosecuted under the sultan's govern
( ment- 1t has become known that Dr.
Angel first received an offer of APP
pointment as regular minister to Tur-
key for four years, and that he declined
| it. He did not wish to be that long
away from the university. Later he
was, asked to go to force a settlement
OF the claims of American missionaries
against the Turkish government and
accepted.
When that work is done his mission
VIII have been performed, and he will
return to this country. Dr. AngelIs
selection for this position is particu-
larly gratifying to the foreign mission
airy organizations in the United States,
which are said to have exercised all
their influences to secure his appoint
ment. For several years he has been a
corporate member of the American
board of commissioners for foreign mis-
sions, and has been active in it's work
He has been recognized, too, as one of
the ableSt men connected with that
bSly, and its members feel confident
that he will persuade the Turk to have
a greater respect for American rights
in the future.
In an interview, DR.. Bradshaw. min
lister of the Congregational church. of
which DIR. Angel is a member, said:
Just what part, if any. the American
board of foreign missions took in Sc
curing DR.. Angeles appointment 1 do
not know. / do know. though, that
large part of his duties in CONSTANT
nople will carry him along the same
line of work he has been doing in COM
mittee for the board in this country.
He was on that committee appointed
by the American board in Toledo last
August to urge President Cleveland to
force a settlement of the American
claims and secure for our missionaries
better protection. There are now, pend
ing before the Turkish government
claims to the amount of $3.50, 900 for
lives and property of American mis-
sionaries destroyed in the outrages per-
petrated by the Turkish soldiery. In
its mild prosecution of these claims.
this government has been ignored and
insulted in a way which the powers of
Europe would not tolerate. l do not
know that DR.. Angeles sole mission in
Turkey is to right the wrongs that have
been done TO missionaries. I do not
know that he has taken anybody into
his confidence to the extent of telling
his arrangements with the administra-
ton in the acceptance of the post. It
is understood here that he will not be
absent four years, but that he will. re- /,
turn as soon as these claims are settled |
and the Turkish government is made !
to feel that missionary property and |
American citizens must not be molested |
in the future"
Professor Martin Dodge. who Will |
probably serve as acting president of |
the university during DR.. Angell's alb
sence, and who is one of his closest
friends, is at present out of the city. |
but from Mrs. D'Ooxe it was learned
that DR.. Angel did not intend to re-
main in Constantinople the full four
years.
DIR. Angel will not give up the pres
dcncy of the university" she said,
and viii probably not be absent from
t more than a year and a half. One of
he special objects of his going was to