Show THE CLOSE OF THE TURKISH MISSION NeW missions of oC tho Church of JesuS ChrIst ot of Saints are opened old oid ones arc often divided fo o make mako moto molo 1 the work In n countrIes too largo large for the tho convenient jurIsdIction of a single mission ne new newfields fields are often added on to missions adjacent and thus the tho great work o of the tho Church is expanding un for del the direction of men who love the Lord and show their love b by doing so L L were pretty well armed but their weakness hi lay In their lack of skill to use uSo their guns with accurate aim else the death roll would have been heen vastlY different Two AmerIcan missionaries were killed 11 My purpose Is not to detail those I fearful days das hut but only to gIo the re suIt on our mission work For more than a month there was danger In aU all aUthe the land Our American consul Mr II Jesse Jesso B Jackson and all the tho foreign consuls at Aleppo took active part to Lo quiet the situation and prevent out outbreaks outbreaks breaks In that elt city Ho He sent us fro fre luent messages eA and wIred our elders In dIstant cIties to act with special care and wIsdom during the tho awful crIsIs Conditions vere so delicate that no one could foresee the outcome It might turn to quietness or 01 It might turn to n a storm of pillage and rapine tenfold more fierce any hour or an anda any da day Battleships came camo from England and amI other senseless Internecine notIons seemed to bo ho regarded moro more than human blood and so aside from rom the influence ot of their silent presence tire tho dId but little to harmonize the tho two tending factions Reports of oC the tho sItuation In which both hoth the elders arid and tire the saInts were found reached Salt Lake Lako Cit City and the tho authorities after deliberation concluded ed to call cali tire the elders awa away from that land until the storm passed over and until tire tho people were more mora anxious to listen to the voice olce ot of warning from the of God rho writer with Sister Reba Booth n n n n n much for their folloW fellow men In carr carrying to thom them the tho glad giad tidings of great jo joy I Since the beginning of the work I I nearl nearly SO years ago amid this glorious progress of the Church a tow low missions I have hae been closed und the labors o of the tho I elders in such fields have havo been tern tem I abandoned The Turkish mis mission sion Is one of these having haIng recently I been heen closed by order o of the FIrst PresIdency Presidency dency On the of oC last April 1909 there thero seemed more hope for the general ad and permanent establish mont meat ot of the tho Turkish h mIssion than wo we had entertained for tor many a long year o of work and anxIety The long hOP hoped d for tor privIlege of colonizing the saints In that land seemed very near noar at hand Elder Eldor Thomas P Pale Page had just sailed from Joppa n a few days s previous and carrIed wIth hIm n a report ot of his find findIngS findIng IngS Ing favorable to our cherished Ideas He and the tho Writer In company compan wIth Elders Hunter and Gardner and Prot Prof Toronto had mado a tour ot of SyrIa and Palestine and hopes were brIght for tor a acolon colon colony for tor that mIssion among the re remaining remaining elders That mornIng began the tho massacre In Inthe inthe the cIty or of Adana only 20 0 mIles from the bIrth place ot of St Paul The awful work ot of death and destruction lion tion soon spread Into towns and villages and then thon Into the thelIa lIa et or of Aleppo on the tho east eust It was Indeed a day of blood and fire 1110 and vapors of smoke About people were rere killed most of whom vero Ar Armenians but a smaller per par cent were tho wild fanatical per perpetrators ot of the tho crime crImo The Tho Armenians I Elders S Burton Newman Nowman John T 1 Woodbury and Joseph F Thorup were honorably released to return homo Elders John D Stevenson Joseph O 0 Phelps Lorin R B Dunkley Ym Wm A BUdge and Don Dan C Loveland were to England and Elders Loy Wood LOwen I Owen and D C Mc McAllister Allister were lot left In Athens Greece for thou though h that part was as In tho Turk Turkish TurkIsh ish mission it was not in tire tho dangerous field Tiro rhe saints are aro now left eft In Turkey alone alono There are about or of them In the tho tour four branches ot of Aleppo Marache arid and Zara with a few scat scattered through S Syria and AsIa Minor Nearly 60 50 or of our Armenian saInts have hae Immigrated and are now In Utah Our next anxiety Is to see the tho remaIning worthy ones gather to the tho land hand or of ZIon On Oct 24 1841 1541 tire tho late Iato Apostle Or Orson Orson son Hyde dedicated d the tho land ot of Pales Palos Palestine tine Uno to the tho Lord for tor tho gathering or of scattered remnants Since that date other apostles viz Iz Lorenzo Soon Snow 1573 Anthon H Lurid Lund 1818 arid and FrancIs M 11 Lyman 1902 havo visited the tho Holy land and each ono one knelt as dId Elder H Hyde do on the sa sacred 11 cred summIt o of tire tho Mount lount of o Olives lIve 9 and called upon tire tho God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob to remember his covenant wIth them The Tho predIctions o of ScrIpture concern concerning Ing tire the Jews Jows and amid their regaining Pales Palestine Palestine tine are now being fulfilled In a most r remarkable manner the details of furnish a most Interesting study Be Besides Idos these apostles above mentIoned there have hae been about 40 n laborIng In that land All jl these In the tho aggregate have hao traveled moro more than a millIon miles mUes and there has been beon ex ax moro more than to carry tho gospel to that nation Four elders eldern have laId donn their lives and amid now they thoy sloop sleep lii In graves marked by monuments whIch tell telI of their living tel testimony tImon among tire tho people Now Non we aro asked It if all thIs Is worth orth the tho while Yes yes many times over oer not only for the tho souls alread already brought Into the tho light ot of truth but the tho ray Il has been opened for tor thousands yet et to hear and learn or of the tho great restora tion The Book or of Mormon Monnon Is there w be Ing road read In a language o common to the tho people and we h have vo besIdes this Ar Book or Mormon Monnon manu manuscripts scripts ot of the tho same In Armenian Os 05 and Greek Grook read for Thus the tho hearts ot of are aro beIng prepared even evon tn hr our ab absence nee to receive the tho truth when whon the tho missIon shall be reopened In the tho due time of tIre tho Lord J WILFORD AlpIne Utah Ulah Dec 22 2 1909 |