If It Had Been Different
By Editor
Massachusetts is interesting herself in an effort to get a state law to prevent smoking in street-cars and other public places. Let the good work go on, and may it spread over the whole land. What can be conceived of as more rude or coarse than for a man to stand in front of you, and puff smoke in your face in a street-car or depot, where circumstances for the time compel you to remain. If It Had Been Different.
If Turkey had had before her during the centuries a true type of Christianity, there would be more Turkish Christians now and a different state of things. Dr. George Washburn, president of Robert College, Constantinople, from 1870 to 1903, says: “The truth about it is that there are very few Turks—even those who are most intelligent—who know what Christianity is. They look upon it, first of all, as something political, something that is anti-Turkish; and they look upon it not simply as something anti-Turkish, but what they see of it in the old Christian churches there makes them look upon it as, after all, a form of idolatry. It does not encourage them to become Christians.” We should say not. No political religion ever won anybody to Christ.