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DAYBREAK IN TURKEY
BY
JAMES L. BARTON, D. D.
Secretary of the American Board
AUTHOR OF
“THE MISSIONARY AND HIS CRITICS,”
“THE UNFINISHED TASK OF THECHRISTIAN CHURCH,” ETC.
SECOND EDITION
BOSTON
THE PILGRIM PRESS
NEW YORK CHICAGO
Copyright, 1908
By James L. Barton
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
To the revered memory of thatnoble company of men and women of all races and creeds who have toiledand sacrificed and died that Turkey might be free, this volume isdedicated.
FOREWORD
This book was not written inorder to catch popular favor at this time of revolution in the Ottoman empire.All except the concluding chapter was prepared some time before the24th of July, 1908, and the entire work was at that time nearlyready for the press. Much of the material had been used in the HydeLecture Course at Andover Seminary and in the Alden Lecture Courseat the Chicago Theological Seminary. The chapter, “Turkey and theConstitution,” was written since the overthrow of the old régime, andappeared as an article in The Outlook in September, 1908. The bookdoes not pretend to be an exhaustive study of the Turkish empire andits problems. Such a work would necessarily be encyclopedic in its sizeand scope.
The purpose from the beginning has been briefly and clearly to setforth the various historical, religious, racial, material, and nationalquestions having so vital a bearing upon all Turkish matters, and whichnow reveal the forces that have had so much to do in changing Turkeyfrom an absolute monarchy into a constitutional and representativegovernment. Reformations have never come by accident, and this moraland political revolution in Turkey, the most sweeping of all, is noexception. To one who traces the entrance and development in theOttoman empire during the last century, of reformative ideas in thereligious, intellectual, and social life of the people, the presentalmost bloodles