Retrenchment in Foreign Missions
The work of the American Board of Foreign Missions seems to be suffering on account of lack of funds. One of their missionaries writes from Turkey: "A great deal is said now of obstacles to the work in the Turkish Empire. All of them put together are simply nothing compared with the effect produced by the short word 'retrench.' We have dismissed all the teachers of our boys' school and shut up two pulpits, and in this way have been able so far to fight off the necessity of dismissing any of our ordained men. But we have accomplished this by letting buildings go, and by paying bills from our own pockets that should have come out of the mission treasury. As for enthusiasm, courage, hope, etc., of course that has gone—perhaps not wholly gone, but pretty much so."