John 1:10

He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.

The coming of Jesus brought upon the world a new opportunity. At long last, there was someone to save the world from sin. A time of great change is sometimes a time when people are willing to find and accept new ideas. Turkey was at such a point in the 1920s. It must have seemed to missionaries like MacCallum that this was the time for a great harvest. Yet the harvest did not come!