Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . xtent to which outrageoustyranny can be carried, until he actually sets foot in AsiaMinor, and finds himself in the Turks own proper domain. Our tribulations beganwith the Custom we had three orfour kind friends who ex-erted themselves to theirutmost to see us safelythrough, their offices didnot altogether avail. Ourtrunks were rummaged,our traveling bags wereturned inside out, andeverything in the natureof a book, even innocentBadseker and Murray, wasconfiscated by this pater-nal go
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . xtent to which outrageoustyranny can be carried, until he actually sets foot in AsiaMinor, and finds himself in the Turks own proper domain. Our tribulations beganwith the Custom we had three orfour kind friends who ex-erted themselves to theirutmost to see us safelythrough, their offices didnot altogether avail. Ourtrunks were rummaged,our traveling bags wereturned inside out, andeverything in the natureof a book, even innocentBadseker and Murray, wasconfiscated by this pater-nal government which isso careful in regard to thereading matter of its sub-jects. And here, as firstwe land upon the inhos-pitable shores of Turkey,may, perhaps, be as good a time as any to tell my readers something of the tyrannywhich is only typified by the Sultans custom house. It can be well imagined that the work of the Christianmissionary comes in for the especial and particularly un-favorable notice of the Turkish government. An old treatywith the Christian powers prevents the Ottomans DRUSE FROM MOUNT LEBANON. 510 OBSTACLES THROWN IN OUR WAY. crushing out Christianity entirely from their land, as theywould be glad to do. This treaty guarantees liberty toworship God as the people choose, but in every way in whichit can be made a dead letter it is annulled. Churches whichare already established cannot be very well destroyed, but ifa congregation wishes to build a new church or schoolhouse,or to put up any mission building of any kind, the mostneedless and exasperating obstacles are thrown in the of the laws requires that permission shall be granted bythe government authorities for any such new building, andsome of our missionaries have been waiting for years andyears for the permission, which they can never get, to erecttheir church or schoolhouse, even though the money israised and the material on hand for the structure. The chief object in my journey across As
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