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The following classification will show that the Editor continues to keep in view

as usual FIVE distinct spheres of observation.

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II. THE LANDS WHERE THE PEOPLE BELIEVE IN A FALSE BOOK.

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Bible Work in Turkey after 1853 16, 54

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"Ye shall Reap, if ye Faint not"...
A Bible-woman's Letter from an
Almshouse.......

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The Ferns District
From the Vicarage, Isle of Dogs...
Report from Ratcliffe

Sketches from Life in Falstaff-yard
Our Amy; or, the Adopted Child
Seed Sown by the Wayside.-Old
Ford Mission....

Notes of the Ball's Pond Mission
Counting Up our Mercies

Letter from Victoria Docks.......
Dudley-street Working Women's
Home....

Heads for United Prayer, May, 1872
A Pastoral Address to our Lady
Superintendents, by the Rev.
Canon Thorold

Two Letters from the Queen
Thanksgiving-day, 27th February,

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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.

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