GUY DAIL by Guy Dail

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 16, 1909

GUY DAIL

By Guy Dail

Turkey

CONSTANTINOPLE.—After a journey of sixty-eight hours from Hamburg, via Leipsic, Dresden, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, and Adrianople, I was pleased to reach this city, so beautifully situated. Brother Voight, who had arrived a week before, to look after our publishing interests in this field, met me at the station, and took me at once to the home of Elder Z. G. Baharian, where I met Elder E. Frauchiger and family, and Brother Scior and wife, who had arrived a day earlier than I.

Yesterday we had Sabbath services with the twenty-five brethren and sisters living in and near Constantinople. Two are converted Jews, five of them are Greeks, and the others are Armenians. One Turk who is not one of us, one Armenian who used to be with us, and a young man whose parents are in the truth but who makes no profession, were present. After the preaching services, in which Brethren Frauchiger and Scior and the writer took part, we had the Sabbath-school. The word spoken was translated from English into Armenian, and then from that into Greek. As Brother Scior can not speak English, he talked in German, and I translated what he said into English, and from the English Brother Baharian interpreted into Armenian. We were all accorded a hearty welcome by the brethren, and felt at home at once; but we longed for the time to come when it would be possible for us to get along without translators.

We expect to visit the company at Bardisag on Wednesday, and to have meetings with them over Sabbath. Returning, we shall meet Brethren L. R. Conradi and Robert Greaves here, and have a council November 1-5. We also expect to see Dr. F. W. Vasenius and his wife, who come from Finland via Odessa, en route to the Abyssinian mission field. Elder H. F. Schuberth, who is not far from here, also expects to call at Constantinople for a short time.

I hope you will remember us and the work here in your prayers, that just the right plans may be laid for advancement both among the Europeans of the city, for whom Brethren Scior and Frauchiger will especially labor, and among the native races.