This historical novel tells the story of what happend: their widows and orphans wandering about in cold and hunger - multiudes of orphans who had lost both parents, homeless, starving, hiding from the wild dogs in the streets: and every child might be safe and happy in the Mission houses if there were money to suport them. The Turks respected the foreigner. In the height of the massacres, all who could crowd into Mission premises were safe under the American flag. And in those massacres, number of those who perished had their choice, and chose to die for Christ. Their orphan children were starving.
