Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . Relics Recovered from the Garden. But we were there to see as much ofthe old site of the early church as pos-sible, and so we started out in the rain. Not long since a garden had beenpurchased by the Greek church for thepurpose of a burying ground, and in dig-ging graves, they came upon the founda-tion of an old building and upon furtherexcavation and investigation the factwas brought to light, that it was the siteof a church. And the columns, cornices,carvings, and inscriptions, point clearly this unmistakably the site of the earlyChristian church. Much valua
Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . Relics Recovered from the Garden. But we were there to see as much ofthe old site of the early church as pos-sible, and so we started out in the rain. Not long since a garden had beenpurchased by the Greek church for thepurpose of a burying ground, and in dig-ging graves, they came upon the founda-tion of an old building and upon furtherexcavation and investigation the factwas brought to light, that it was the siteof a church. And the columns, cornices,carvings, and inscriptions, point clearly this unmistakably the site of the earlyChristian church. Much valuable history lies storedaway and covered up here in Thyatirain this old church site, and were it pos-sible to get a Fermen from the Turkishgovernment, enterprising Europeans andAmericans would not long let this im-portant site of the early church remainas a burying ground, and all her historycovered up with some eight feet of not only the government itself, but 153. Plate of Quinces. The top quince meas-ures 13x15 inches in circumference. the- inhabitants themselves are adverseto anything like improvement or enter-prise in Turkish domains. In some fewinstances where a Fermen had been re-ceived by money and influence from thegovernment, and an attempt made toexcavate, the people of the place roseup in arms, and prevented the progressof the work. To this I shall have oc-casion later on to refer. The heavy rains and the brigands,made our going to Pergamos impracti-cable, so we retraced our steps south to the main line, and the same eveningfound ourselves in Philadelphia, in adriving rain storm. We were informedthat there was a hotel at this place, andafter waiting at the depot for a halfhour, a carriage came and took usthrough the narrow, winding, filthystreets, somewhere in the city of Phila-delphia, to what proved to be not a ho-tel, but a Turkish drinking and gamblinghouse. Four of us were put in a smallroom with two single beds, but for thisnigh
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