Identifier: missionaryvisito9bret (find matches)
Title: Missionary, Visitor, The (1907)
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Brethren's General Missionary and Tract Committee
Subjects: Church of the Brethren Priodicals Church of the Brethren- Missions
Publisher: Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House
Contributing Library: Bridgewater College, Alexander Mack Memorial Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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and having lived in this country all hislifetime, and with a heart full of lovefor his American brethren, and havingalready visited the sites of thesechurches, he is all and more than wecould ask for in a guide. Much has been written of the SevenChurches of Asia, and it is not mypurpose to write historically of theseplaces, but. of their present conditionsand the surrounding country.Smyrna. Smyrna, Asia Minor is located on thebay of Smyrna, has a population of be-tween three and four hundred thousand,made up of Turks, Greeks, Armenians,Jews, Europeans, and Americans. Thisis the principal port of entry on the AsiaMinor coast. Many ships enter herefrom all the ports of the Adriatic, Medi-terranean, iEgean, and the Black Seas.And now it is proposed to start a lineof steamers direct from Smyrna to NewYork, via. Athens, the Corinthian Isth-mus Canal, Naples, and Gibraltar. Thiswill be a great convenience to both thepassenger, and the freight traffic. Smyrna very easily takes the lead in149
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Rug making at Sparta (ancient Psidia). These girls get from two to four piastersper day, eight to sixteen cents and furnish their own food. sultanas, figs, and the olive oil trade, party to be invited into the warehouse From the rich valleys of the interiorcomes the finest figs, sultanas, and otherraisins, that the world knows of. Thereare several railways running north, east,and south. By these and the variouscamel caravan routes, these principalproducts including the oil, licorice, andvalonia, are accumulated and brought in-to Smyrna. This makes Smyrna practi-cally the fig and sultana center of theworld, and is largely instrumental ingiving it its present importance. The rug and carpet industry is of nomean importance, as the Smyrna rugshave a wide reputation. However itmust not be considered that all this in-dustry is confined at Smyrna, for manyof the most valuable rugs are broughtin from the interior of Asia Minor. It was a rare privilege of our little of T. A. Spartali & Co.

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