Christian Work in Turkey.
WHEN the church inaugurated its great work of missions, no field was regarded so unpromising as Turkey. Perhaps, for that very reason, it was among the first selected, and it is really astonishing how much attention has been paid to that Empire by the Christian churches of the West. The United States and Great Britain have vied with each other in pressing Christianity in that field, and to-day there are no more prosperous missions than those which bear the American name in Turkey. There are now in the Turkish Empire, as gathered from recently published statistics, thirty central mission stations, five colleges for giving ordinary education, and others for theological purposes, 121 churches, 400 preaching stations, 900 pastors, teachers, and other Christian workers, 60,000 regular attendants at their places of worship, of whom 10,000 are communicants. These figures mark a high degree of success, and are every way encouraging. But it is well to remember also, in this connection, that the population of European and Asiatic Turkey is not less than 25,000,000. Still, it was the grain of leaven that leavened the entire mass.—Sel.