Journal 40, page 15

knees or throw their heads back with eyes closed & rapt expression of countenance, while a priest with raised hands offers prayer in low & not unmusical tones, the effect is rather impressive & the analogies with a Presbyterian prayer meeting are various. To witness these ceremonies a crowd of dirty little children & a group of travelers is congregated. These Dervishes I mean to know more of before I drop the subject.

-We stumble upon an excellent french restaurant & get just such cream & chocolate cakes as dear Mme. Perrot used to give us at Paris. Mrs. P. buys some postage stamps for her little boy;-Mr. P. hastily chooses a few last photographs-& then, late for the boat, we go pell-mell, hurry-scurry through the last Eastern street our feet will ever tread. I think of this as I fly over the muddy, conical paving stones, elbowing the wonderfully various crowd that is acting theatricals with charming unconsciousness on this vast theatre. Somehow, it is with regret that I say goodbye to the lazy, dirty, flea-ridden East, which, yet is odorous with all rarest perfumes, gorgeous beyond any discription save that of its own poets & wearing still about it like a garment that mystery so attractive to all poetic minds-that kindly wierdness of the old-that sacredness which "the human soul with its awful shadow" casts upon the unwritten face of Nature in this land that was the cradle of our Race. Farewell to (a pictorial paragraph relative to the salient features of Eastern life that come under the traveler's eye.)

On deck we meet Mr. Tomkins the pleasant young American whom Mrs. P. calls "a good boy: for his honesty of speech, & with him Mr. Bliss of Roberts College, who tells me when I return to Chicago to call at Bliss & Sharpe's the celebrated druggists & tell the senior member of the firm I saw his brother on the steamer stadium upon the Bosphorus & to drink his health in their matchless soda-water.

Dr. L. calls me aside & talks with me about the Mission. Here are some of his ideas: "The church at home must modify its ideas of the Missionary work. As it is now, if a young man of ardent, enthusiastic temperament "feels a call" to go off to the world's end, the Church says "well, we must give him some money to help him along with his enterprise" & so it sends him off & consigns him to oblivion. It forgets that the Gospel command lies on us all. It is our enterprize that he is helping forward-he is our proxy in the evangelization of the world. The Itinerant system of our Church is admirably adopted to the Missionary work. I hold that "the field" is the world in the most intimate as in the broadest sense that our system should prevail equally everywhere & that our church, if she sees a young man with peculiar adaptation to the duties of a missionary should lay her hand upon him & say we want you for India, for Turkey, or for Africa & we can not release you without you show us the very best of reasons why you should not go. Then, when it has thus sent these men let the ch. support them liberally & identify herself with them as though they had not left their native land. Another false idea is