. Record of the class of eighteen hundred and seventy-six of Princeton university. s after our Dorothea was born, Isent my family to Constantinople for a fewmonths rest and recuperation, and a season of re-lief from the awful strain of the situation. How-ever, a more terrible experience was in store. Atthe moment of the outbreak of the massacre inConstantinople, in August of that summer, when6,000 or 8,060 people were done to death, my wife,with two of our children, was in Pera Street, al-most in the midst of the turmoil and shock, in addition to what had already beenendured, to
. Record of the class of eighteen hundred and seventy-six of Princeton university. s after our Dorothea was born, Isent my family to Constantinople for a fewmonths rest and recuperation, and a season of re-lief from the awful strain of the situation. How-ever, a more terrible experience was in store. Atthe moment of the outbreak of the massacre inConstantinople, in August of that summer, when6,000 or 8,060 people were done to death, my wife,with two of our children, was in Pera Street, al-most in the midst of the turmoil and shock, in addition to what had already beenendured, together with the terrible anxiety of thefew following days of the massacres, was sufficientto send my family to America, and I remained ayear and a half alone in Erzroom. A heavy part ofmy duty was the conduct of relief work, throughwhich about 60,000 persons in the Erzroom provincereceived assistance, at an expenditure of between$75,000 and $80,000. In this way death by starva-tion was prevented and two harvests were fact that this failed to start the plundered peo-. pie on the way to recuperation is explained by theother fact that the Turkish machine continues itsunutterable grinding in an even more unpityingway. In the spring of 1898, after a residence in Erz-room of a little more than nineteen years, I with-drew, on account of the health of my family, totake up work in this city of Adana. This is a cityof about 60,000 population, two-thirds of whom areMoslem. It is situated in the midst of this greatCilician plain, about thirty miles from the northshore of the eastern arm of the Mediterranean climate is good, with hot summers and mildwinters. Erzroom is 6,500 feet in elevation—thisis at sea level. In Erzroom snow is deep, heresnow never falls. There the thermometer goessometimes to 15 degrees below zero, here it veryseldom gets down to 30 degrees above zero. Therethe hamals (porters) and load animals are morevigorous than those found here. Missionary wo
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