ALPHABETICAL INDEX. Afghanistan: The Land where there is Alphabetical Writing, What the Ear- Ball's-pond Bible Mission, Notes of the, Bible only in Mothers' Meetings, 138. Bibles, More sold than last year, 367. Bible Mission Quilt, 232, 257. Bible-woman, Qualifications of, 129. Bible-woman, Letter from an Alms- Bible-women Nurses, Our, 161, 298. Ditto, Annual Accounts of, 385. Bible-woman, Four Months' Visits with China-Sowing and Weeping, 276. China, The Orphan Colony of Jews in, Conference on Israel, The, 285. Contest for Souls, 260. Contrasts, 379. Council of Friends, Our, 353. Courts where Everyone has a Bible, The, 353. Seeta Ram, the Taught of God, 309. Shoreditch, Sympathy in, 199, 333. Silence of the Bible, The, 180. Somers'-town, Visits in, 169, 376. Spread of the Bible from the Fourteenth The Sister Workers on Bow Common, 130, 321. "Them words that did it," 291. Victoria Docks, From, 74. Voices of God in low districts in the Westminster, Fathers' Classes in, 264. Where Scripture says Peter was, 183. Why is it worth while to continue this Witness of Race, Place, and Language, "Ye shall reap if ye faint not," 317. The following classification will show that the Editor continues to keep in view as usual FIVE distinct spheres of observation. II. THE LANDS WHERE THE PEOPLE BELIEVE IN A FALSE BOOK. Bible Work in Turkey after 1853 16, 54 39 40 41 43 65 70 71 73 74 76 77 97 103 105 Our Special Field. 34 37 "Ye shall Reap, if ye Faint not"... Wanted a Sketches from Life in Falstaff-yard Notes of the Ball's Pond Mission Letter from Victoria Docks....... Heads for United Prayer, May, 1872 Two Letters from the Queen 1872 PAGE 234 THE MAGNA CHARTA OF TURKEY. THE "Missing Link Magazine," under another title-THE BOOK AND ITS MISSIONS-commenced its existence in the remarkable year of 1856. Its first article in January concerned Constantinople, and on the 21st of February in that year, after the conclusion of the Crimean War, the Sultan of Turkey actually proclaimed a Firman in his capital city, through his Grand Vizier, before all the assembled dignitaries of his empire-which announced a freedom unknown in the land of the False Prophet since the hour that linked together the power of the Koran and the sword;-for it established absolute equality between all his subjects, as to civil privilege, of whatever religion they might be. Every sentence of this Firman was, in fact, a revolution. It admitted foreigners to settle and trade, it banished from public documents all epithets implying inferiority on the part of Christians. All persons, of whatever race or religion who could pass certain prescribed examinations, were to be admitted according to their capacities into the public service, civil and VOL. VIII.-No. 1. B |