Missionary Needs in Turkey
By Editor
A missionary writing from Turkey says that a region about the size of New England, containing about a million and a quarter of inhabitants, is committed to the charge of three ordained missionaries (only two at present), and two lady teachers, with no other Protestant agency of any kind in the field. If there is any art by which missionary forces can be spread out any thinner than that, and continue an appreciable element as a moral power, we should be most happy to learn it. Rather than undertake that task, would it not be better to thin out a few of those who spend their energies largely in elbowing each other in little villages of five hundred to a thousand inhabitants in New England or the West? I fancy a hundred of that class could easily be gathered up whose departure for Africa would, in many ways, be a blessing to our own land. Home churches do not give at the rate of one cent per member for foreign missions.