. Christian herald. was two thousandyears ago. Farther south, a daysjourney from Lake Van, is Bitlis, an-other mission station. It is a beauti-ful place on the Bitlis Su, one of theheadwaters of the Tigris. Way backin the time ofXenophon, whenthe ten thousandGreeks marchedon their wayto the sea, theypassed Bitlis,and even thenthe Kurdshurled stonesdown upon themfrom the castlerock. At the presenttime the Turk-ish Governmentisbuildingagood permanentroad throughthe ArmenianMountains, aVidit is a pictur-esque country through which it are high mountains, streamsbounding over the rocks
. Christian herald. was two thousandyears ago. Farther south, a daysjourney from Lake Van, is Bitlis, an-other mission station. It is a beauti-ful place on the Bitlis Su, one of theheadwaters of the Tigris. Way backin the time ofXenophon, whenthe ten thousandGreeks marchedon their wayto the sea, theypassed Bitlis,and even thenthe Kurdshurled stonesdown upon themfrom the castlerock. At the presenttime the Turk-ish Governmentisbuildingagood permanentroad throughthe ArmenianMountains, aVidit is a pictur-esque country through which it are high mountains, streamsbounding over the rocks, quaint vil-lages perched in precipitous placesand inaccessible during the wintertime. At Sert, in the mountains far-ther south, I was told that a wagonhad never been seen; even the horse-man must climb over steep rocks,leaving his horse to follow him. Still farther south, and we are nolonger in Armenia. The Armenianlanguage gives way to the faces we meet are of a Semitictype; the prominent nose and the. A MISSION SCHOOL IN PROCESS OFCONSTRUCTION peculiar conical-shaped head of theArmenian are left behind. Now wefind the Arab, and the Nestorian de-scendants of the Assyrians, and thestrange, devil-worshiping Yezidis. But,like the Jews, the Armenians havewandered in Mosuland distant Bag-dad, colonies ofthem are found. A new eraseems to beopening up tothe long-lostcountry is beingexploited for itsrich mineralores. New roadsmake the largertowns accessibleduring all theyear. Europeaninfluence is fastentering, andthe Armenianswho have goneto Europe or America return withwealth and new ideas. Probably the Armenians will alwaysbe a subject nation without a countryof their own; but, as with the Jews,the world will be their home. Longpersecutions have sharpened theirwits, and fitted them to take a fore-most rank in every field of is a common saying in the Or-ient that it takes ten Christians tooutwit a Jew, and ten Jews to outwitan Arme
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