The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-06
HOW MISSION WORK IS
CARRIED ON IN
TURKEY,
(Concluded.)

! IN lSiL 1t has 40 out-StationS, and its
stations are at Samakov, Monastir,
Philipopolis and Salonica or Thessaloni-
ca. In its boundaries are ancient
Thrace and Macedonia Salonica was
visited in 1S47 by DR.. William Sehauff-
Ter from ConstantinopIe, and he for the
American Board started a station for
work among the Jews. This city, an
GENTLY called Thessalonica, so named
for the sister of Alexander the Great. is
! remarkable in history. Xerxes encamp-
! ed there en- route for Greece; Cicero,
after banishment, spent some time
there. Here, too. was the Thessalonian
Church, founded by Paul. Some of the
interesting mosques, towers and church.
es were built i'll the first centuries aft
er Christ. and some even date before
the Christian era. Notably an old
temple of Venus
| 1t has received the name of Apostolic
City because the scene of PauPs Iabors
and sufferings. 1t was here Miss Ellen
NJ Stone was stationed, whose recent
experiences have startled the whole
civilized world. Miss Ann Marston in
1858. gave to the American Board and
the Methodist Mission about $500 each.
to be expended in mission schools
Those opened by the American Board
were transferred from Philipopolis and
Eski Zagbra to Samokov. From the
Theological and Collegiate Summaries,
most of the educated preachers go
forth The High School for Girls at
Monastir sends out Bible women and
teachers. Thus God is placing beacon
lights upon the Balkansl May their
beams broaden and blend until lost in
the full effulgence of the Sun of Right
eousueSS.
TURKISH WOMEN.
The education of the Turkish girl is
still q knotty problem. Betrothed when
mere infant, she must marry when IA
or 16 years of age. In some places she
must learn to spin and weave in order
to make a good wife. Spinning is a
slow process done by holding the spin
die in the hand. If she lives where she
is required to knit or crochet stockings
for herself and all her relatives-at-law,
from her husbands grandmother down,
she must begin early, sometimes when
only six years old. She delights in
braided hair luckily for her mother her
sometimes 80 braids are done up only
once in two weeks. After her separa.-
ton days she must not mingle with
boys or men; never to be seen unveiled.
a good child in Turkey means a quiet
child. Very early they are sent to sit
ting schools. Fancy the difference to
child life by the introduction of kinder
gartens. -
IlACIuSlCll VI WOfIlSII 10 llOl otiN dyo a
mark of degradation, oftenSa mere pro-
tective measure. The Kurdish noun
taineers have obtained most nearly to
the ideal of the new woman-the equal
ity of the sexes Those among the no
madic tribes have also large freedom
of action. The Armenian bride must be
in subsection to her husbands family
She may not even speak to her husband
in the presence of his parents, without
s2l 1se-e-sr TDclr O Td
Jewish women have. greater proprietary
rights than the Christian women, al
though contact with Europeans and ed
ucational changes have raised her
status, social and legal, especially
among the wealthy classes in Constan-
tinople and Smyrna.
Marriage is a civil act, requiring at
least two witnesses. Divorce is easy,
yet the curse of Allah rests upon the
man who puts away his wife without
due cause. However, without warning.
Turk may say, Cover thy face,
which means leave his house forever.
This she must do, provided he pay her
her nekiah or dover, which is agreed
upon before marriage and is very bind
ing If a wife unjustifiably demands
divorce she forfeits her dover. Turk
ish maid may accept or reject the hus-
band chosen for her, even after the GER
emory man has no marital rights
until after his wife has spoken to him.
Matrons of experience advise shyness,
which sometimes leads to considerable
strategy to induce the coy maiden to
break her silence The peasant women
are stolid and unattractive, suggesting
a life resembling beasts of burden. The
Armenian women are good looking and
intelligent. Their old women are called
handsome-in strong contrast to the
aged of other Orientafs.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TURK
AS A MAN.
It is puzzling to get an accurate idea
OF a Turkish man. Such differences in
estimates appear in different writers.
One says: 1.-THE Turks give good illus
tration of Sir Thomas Moore's maxim;
they know that to be humble to super
Tors is duty, to equals is courtesy to
interiors is nobleness, and to all safe
ty.'"
An opposite view we get from writ
er after the Armenian massacres: "A
Turk I call not a beast, not a human
being, but a devil" without the pro-
verbal appendage.
They are recorded by some as giving
protection to the women, children and
weaklings. When they see a Moslem
intoxicated they exclaim: "Ah! he has
left Mohammed and gone over to Jesus
Christi
Raki or wine is sold only in large
cities, and is not easily obtained. When
man drinks coffee and does not drink
tobacco "a term for smoking), he is
called weak and foolish. He is thought
very virtuous who drinks neither raki,
coffee nor tobacco.
The greatest obstacle to mission work
is thought to be the government itself,
while it sounds well on paper, it is in
operative. not to say hostile. America
is not feared for various reasons. She
cannot, like other powers. offer the pro-
lection of her army. The only thing
she could do for the benefit of the Sui
tan would be to withdraw her mission
aries. To offset this Prof w NJ. Ram
sey Of Aberdeen University says, Rob
ert College has done more to render a
safe solution of the Eastern question in
European Turkey than all the ambas-
sailors of all the European powers have
succeeded in doing to render that Solu-
ton difficult, and the reason is that the
Missionary Colleges have sought nei-