. The Turk and the land of Haig; or, Turkey and Armenia: descriptive, historical, and picturesque . emale education. What ahappy result, that the youth of both sexes share alikethe opportunities of culture ! Prospects were never brighter. The number androlls in the evangelical churches are larger than everbefore, and the common-school system is one thatpromises great results in the advance of civilization. To this, the largest mission field of the AmericanBoard, 700 missionaries have been sent out at a costexceeding the sum of $6,000,000. Its present prop-erty is worth $1,500,000; it has 176 m
. The Turk and the land of Haig; or, Turkey and Armenia: descriptive, historical, and picturesque . emale education. What ahappy result, that the youth of both sexes share alikethe opportunities of culture ! Prospects were never brighter. The number androlls in the evangelical churches are larger than everbefore, and the common-school system is one thatpromises great results in the advance of civilization. To this, the largest mission field of the AmericanBoard, 700 missionaries have been sent out at a costexceeding the sum of $6,000,000. Its present prop-erty is worth $1,500,000; it has 176 missionaries nowin the field, with 878 native trained ministers andassistants. The board has now 125 churches withabout 13,000 members and 30,000 adherents, most ofwhich number are Armenians. Indeed, for actualmissionary work, our people have been selected as the THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH. 149 first fruits of missionary effort because of their readyappreciation of the Bible as the Word of God ; andto this very day the work of evangehzation in thacountry has been restricted to Armenians, Greeks, and. PRESIDENT C. C. TRACY AND STUDENTS OF ANATOLIA COLLEGE. Others of ancient Christian churches, while the Turksand all other Mohammedan peoples have ever remainedirresponsive and hostile to the light of the missionaries from the very start discovered theimpossibility of converting them to Christianity. 150 THE TURK AND THE LAND OF HAIG. Encouraged by their success among the Armeniansand Greeks, the missionaries were ardently pursuingtheir work and laying plans for larger usefulness whenthe storm of Moslem hatred and fanaticism fell uponour land, devastating hamlet and town, city andprovince. In the afflicted provinces missionary work,as well as all business activity, was at a standstill; andwith gloomy apprehension for future labor the mis-sionaries stood at their posts and heroically continuedtheir sacred work, hoping almost against hope for thereturn of peace and security. Th
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