Show IN TURKEY the readers of your highly esteemed paper aper may have been inform informed pd by y correspondence from 1142 42 lington islington Is or perhaps through gli bro clove at constantinople concerning the apparently serious turn of matters in the oriental mission if so this communication is to but little pur purpose 0 se if not it will be novel to hear tb that at as the turkish and armenian papers put it two ex elpa a striated mormon elders fleeing from america landed on these hospitable shores and dared under the very shadow of the ottoman crescent to elude its officers and are now wending their way to the interior of this unspotted land to besmear it with their polluting doctrine the officers are tracing them to the centre of this peninsula whence they will be carried beyond the turkish frontier which they so cunningly crossed over as soon as the Porte took the matter in hand really the only utah elders now inland or who have been since Br brothers athers J M tanner and T sport left here are president P F P F hintze and myself brother J clove has remained IXL in constantinople and brother J M has not yet moved from palestine from which parts part we who are now inland migrated f fearlessly ear lessly presenting our Feske reh or special paw pas at every relay or visit we make to a city more than that to any and every greasy hungry baksheesh 11 loving representative of the leader of the falth faithful ful who legally or not detained us on all mannerow manner manne of pretexts the fee innermost of ef which would always turn out to be an innate bantering ng for a aft gift baksheesh prom an artle article a both in english and french in the levant rera herald it would appear that two armenian brethren nave have been carried in chains towards constantinople for trial supposed to have been influx encee by mormonism nisin itis it is freely admitted that they were perhaps the most exemplary men in their community and of course highly esteemed detailed and reliable information we lack their offense seems to consist in having too pub publicly liely declared axed repent Be pent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand during the preliminary process they told the authorities that the injunction applied equally to the high functionaries function aries and to the peoble ale and that the officials if uncil ling ng to believe should at least begin to administer their affairs justly and honestly naturally enough the levant herald in its french wit adds nobody here needs to repent consequently mormonism amP must go according to the same journal the matter is being wired over all telegraphic lines things here are lively scores came the first days later even two and three days journey off we had over one hundred a day greeks catholics romans orthodox ar medians men ians edans diset disciples wies and various protestants and nonconformists on or those who are real or quasi apostates from any of these faiths are the material of which our gatherings consist besides an occasional cas ional incursion of Nest from assyria who travel with caravans to and from the districts where nineveh and babylon anciently heaved and swayed their jeweled but formidable sceptres tres these Nest have no priests recognizing their lack of authority to the majo majority ity of these brother hintze cannot always preach a whole sermon without some turkish interpreter n re r as these men speak a la language u a made up of am arabic lc A armenian an persian and other words considered dialectic but which may jn in reality be nothing less than a remnant of the language of the babylonians which itself received a great infusion of Habr alsins during the captivity of the tribes of israel however how every the most usual words of the turkish tongue when confined to ideas they can easily grasp rasp they have learned through trading etc in turkey these labors though tiresome as we are called upon from 6 am to 1030 pm besides being followed in the streets when going to in meals neals are yet a source of much satisfaction and a few stones thrown at our windows and scoffing in the street and even an occasional burlesque song about 11 Mormon lar 11 the cormons mormons Mor mons have not done much to seare us off quite a number have a smattering knowledge of english and still more of french and italian the americans have done a noble work in this benighted land having introduced the old and new testaments and advanced the civilization and education of this country des despite ite the diversity of motives and interests and sometimes even the selfishness that may have revealed itself in accomplishing their philanthropic mission my heart swells with some strange emotion at the right flight of an occasional rusty tin shield the paint of which though peeling off through the combined efforts of rain and a scorching sun represents clearly A enough for a patriotic heart that JJ emblem of many privileges the 3 american eagle upon some con portal in numerous other places the 1 british missionaries have done fully as great a work the english speaking nations certainly lead in this as well as in almost countless other enterprises and the universal language stands but little show alongside anglo saxon which language furnishes over fo forty per er the cent recent of the roots of Vola the prO proposed Dosed substitute for all languages fleas aleas are numerous in traveling one receives an education not otherwise easily obtained thus flees coming suddenly under my notice in a very forcible manner in middle egypt I 1 had an opportunity J never before equalled equal led of learning their habits disposition dis sI tion and proclivities brother antze hintze sadly enough for him missed that 0 opportunity and is thus ignorant or of that branch of natural history crops are promising the rainy season is nearly over living JB cheap and moderately good A young man from palestine F dieterle has arrived here having been called to assist in theofleld the field shortly we proceed to la aleppo district and president hintze starts to look into the dona clava motion referred to in the fore part of this article more anon C U L ADANA turkey april 9 1889 |