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34 THE WHITE SLAVE MARKET
thus were women first brought within the
pale and protection of the Church and of
Christianity, when the Church had been in
existence scarcely one decade. The women
Deaconesses thus created became pious souls
who ministered to the poor, the sick, and
the lonely, their noble Samaritan work commencing
in Jerusalem, extending afterwards
under the direction of the first great woman
of the Order Tabitha, the rich widow
throughout Asia, and penetrating even within
the palace walls of Rome.
But alas for the efforts of the Divine Master
and the efforts of His followers in those days,
when Christianity was "an association in
charity of the poor," little has since been
accomplished in raising the status of women
in Asia, even at the present day. At the
moment of writing these lines native raiders,
traders in girls' flesh, and procurers are
busy scouring Upper Egypt, Arabia, the
small islands washed by the JEgean Sea, and
Greece scouring and ravishing and herding
together young, innocent, and totally ignorant
girls to maintain the supply of human flesh
to meet the fearful demand that exists in
houses of ill-fame in Cairo, Alexandria, Port
Said, and minor seaport towns in the Near
East.
Most of these abominable raiders and
traders are half Egyptian, half Arabian ;
some are half Turk, half Arabian. Their
helpless victims are taken in consignments to
the horrible sacrifice. Generally they are