TURKEY: Reforms Summarized

"Turkey presents today the most promising and challenging field on the face of the earth for missionary service." Thus wrote James L. Barton, missionary executive, in last week's issue of Christian Work. But first he summarized the revolutionary changes in Turkey since 1923. The changes:

1) For the first time in Mohammedan history, Church and State have been separated. The Angora Government, having deposed the Sultan-Calif, appointed a Calif without temporal power, then proceeded to depose the Calif it had made; so there is no...

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