Many are not aware of the great work already accomplished by American missionaries during the past seventy years in the Ottoman Empire, nor of the vast influence they have exerted, both directly and indirectly. They have been in many departments the pioneers of civilization. They have stuck to their posts, obscure or prominent, in peace or in war, in famine, plague and persecution. Pashas and diplomats and generals have sought their aid without fear of being misled or betrayed. But the messengers of the Cross have never been swerved from what they consider a “higher calling”—to instruct the ignorant, young and old, to counsel and reclaim the erring, to attend the sick and imprisoned, and to comfort the broken-hearted. To support these general statements, the reader must pardon a few statistics compiled from the latest official tables, showing the _direct results_ of American missionary effort in Turkey. STATISTICS OF AMERICAN MISSIONS IN TURKEY.[70] The following figures, with the exception of the Press statistics, represent the work of the American Board (Congregational) and of the Presbyterian Board taken together. The Congregational proportion constitutes about three fourths and the Presbyterian one fourth in all these figures, the work of the latter society being confined to Syria and Mosul. THE FORCE. _Laborers._ Foreign missionaries 223 Native pastors, preachers, teachers, etc. 1,094 ——————————— Total force of laborers 1,317 American missionaries to Turkey since 1821 550 _Plant._ Value of property held by Americans, exclusive of churches, schools, etc., erected in the names of native subjects, with foreign aid, for which statistics are not available $2,500,000 _Annual Expenditure._ Appropriations from America $225,000 From native sources 60,000 ——————————— Total expenditure annually $285,000 Total American expenditure from the first, at least $10,000,000 THE RESULTS.