Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . ures thirteen by fifteen inches in circum-ference. Coming here at this season of theyear, and seeing the results of this richsoil in the abundance and perfection ofthe various commodities named, andthen go into wretched Thyatira, andPhiladelphia, each, towns of some sixthousand inhabitants to-day, and see thewretched, low-down, poverty-stricken,miserably-poor, half-clad, half-fed peo- desolation is upon them, and has beenthese many centuries since the gospelcandle went out. reached Thyatira at night in aheavy rain storm, and found our waythrough th
Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . ures thirteen by fifteen inches in circum-ference. Coming here at this season of theyear, and seeing the results of this richsoil in the abundance and perfection ofthe various commodities named, andthen go into wretched Thyatira, andPhiladelphia, each, towns of some sixthousand inhabitants to-day, and see thewretched, low-down, poverty-stricken,miserably-poor, half-clad, half-fed peo- desolation is upon them, and has beenthese many centuries since the gospelcandle went out. reached Thyatira at night in aheavy rain storm, and found our waythrough the narrow, crooked, darkstreets, to what was said to be a hotel,but proved to be a Turkish coffee house,with large smoking, and drinking roombelow, and a few bedrooms above,. Stacks of Licorice Root. pie in their miserable houses and hutsof habitation, a people that seem utterlyGod-forsaken, one is made to wonderhow all this wretchedness can prevailin a land so rich and fertile as the Ou-shak valley. It is beyond our comprehension inrich America, to conceive of anything sodesolate and so terrible as the condi-tion of these people. But is not that thecondition promised in the Bible to thosewho forget God? Here the gospel lightshone brightly early in the first neglected the opportunity of theirlifetime, and behold desolation upon reached by an outside stairway. Thislower room was filled with smoking,drinking, gambling, noisy Turks andGreeks, perhaps fifty or sixty in number;cruel rough-looking men. And it wasno pleasant thought for us as Americanstrangers, knowing of the cruelty of theTurks, to be obliged to remain at sucha place, but there was but one thing todo and that was to go to bed, trustingin God to take care of us. The next morning the
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