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duties begin, and go on unceasingly till
ten at night.
They are always short-handed, whatever staff may be
in residence. An increase of staff means an increase
of work undertaken, and not an easing for those
already working to the full extent of their powers.
When the Sabbatical year of each missionary comes,
he or she is obviously much in need of it.
The Mission includes oflScials whose duties seem
strange, until you consider the amount of work performed,
and the need for division of labour ; and
that if some teach and preach, and some conduct
a hospital, other services are required for which the
true enthusiastic missionary temperament is not, as
a rule, well fitted. Long ago the Mission found that
its business affairs did not prosper in the hands of
preachers, educationalists, and doctors. So a Business
Manager and Treasurer was brought from America
and charged with transacting the Mission's affairs.
You may see him now in his office, with all the block
and tackle of business around him— safes, ledgers,
letter-books, piles of correspondence and all the rest
of it— and he is a busy man. Busy, also, is another
unexpected secular member of the Mission, officially
" the Stenographer."
Anatolia College, the chief work of the Mission, is
an American college, in all but its students, set down
in Asia Minor. Very interesting it was to see the
various races, more than a dozen in all, which figured
among its students, and to learn the places whence
these students came. Their homes were in Dalmatia,
Albania, the ^gean Islands, the various Balkan
countries, European Turkey, Asia Minor, and, least
expected of all, in Russia. Nearly all the Russians
came from Caucasia, and were sons of soldiers settled
there after the war of 1878. Perhaps more definite
impressions of racial characteristics may be got by
seeing lads of various races thrown together, as at
this college, than from a similar mixed company of
men. In lads their racial peculiarities are given full
play ; in men they may be masked—at least are never