First Tent Effort in Turkish Empire
A REPORT from Sister E. A. Girou, which will be published later, contains this interesting item regarding the progress of the work in the Turkish Empire: “To the history of our Turkish Mission another page is added. For three weeks we have been privileged to see a tent, for the first time, pitched with special permission of the chief governor in the center of Odemish, a town of twenty-five thousand inhabitants, in the vilayet [province] of Smyrna. Two years ago a tent was pitched in Kadi-Keny, of Constantinople, but the permission for preaching under it was denied by the authorities. This was a disappointment for us then, but not a discouragement. And now, although not in a more favorable time nor in a more peaceful part of the same ruling power, the Lord has wonderfully opened the way before us.” Sister Girou says that their meetings have opened with a full tent. Besides a number of Christian people, there were about one hundred Moslems in the congregation, and many ladies were standing around the tent. Let us pray that God may abundantly bless this first tent effort in the Turkish Empire to the salvation of many souls.