INDEX

Aden, [133].
Adrianople, [33], [173].
Agriculture, methods, [23], [233];
products, [23], [24].
Aintab, [139], [171];
medical work, [208].
Albanians, [78], [80], [261];
work among, [262].
American Bible Society, [154].
American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions, [90], [145], [146].
American College for Girls, [189].
Amurath I, 1359-1403, [33].
Anatolia College, [191], [234].
Anderson, Sec. Rufus, [123], [171], [183].
Angell, James B., quotation, [136].
Arabia, missions in, [132].
Armenia, traditional history, [65];
political history, [66];
population, [67];
religious history, [68].
Armenian Church, Evangelical;
see Evangelical Armenian Church.
Armenian Church, Gregorian;
see Gregorian Church.
Armenian Evangelical Union, [163].
Armenians, [65-70];
tour among, [123-126];
interest in, [144], [149];
desire for political freedom, [269].
Army, organization of, [43].
Bajazet I, [33].
Barnum, H. N., [186], [216].
Barton, George A., quotation, [118].
Beach, Harlan P., quotation, [180].
Bebek, boys’ school, [164], [171];
seminary, [182].
Beirut, [122], [137];
medical work, [208];
press, [199];
school, [184];
Syrian Protestant College, [187], [190].
Bible, Armenian, [150-153], [198];
publication, [153];
translations, [199].
Biblical interest in Turkey, [19].
Bird, Mr., [123].
Bithynia Union, [228].
Black stone of the Kaaba, [96].
Bliss, Daniel, [187].
Bliss, Edwin Munsell, quotation, [222].
British and Foreign Bible Society, [151], [154].
Bryce, Hon. James, quotation, [196].
Bulgarians, [80];
in Macedonia, [263];
work among, [173].
Cabinet, Turkish, changes in, [283].
“Capitulations,” [241].
Central Turkey College, Aintab, [189].
Church Missionary Society, [145].
Cilicia Union, [228].
Circassians, [80].
Classical interest in Turkey, [18].
Colleges, official recognition, [189];
present need, [286].
Committee of Ottoman Union and Progress, [279].
Concessions, [241].
Constantinople, [137];
missionary center, [87], [93-97].
Constitutional government, present problems, [285].
Constitutional liberty granted, [281].
Cromer, Lord, quotation, [10], [40], [50], [112].
Crusades, [54], [59].
Cyprus, possession by England, [47].
Darazi, founder of Druses, [55].
Death penalty for Mohammedan convert, [133], [250].
Decline of Empire, [15].
Dennis, James S., quotation, [206], [260], [274].
De Redcliffe, Sir Stratford, [250], [253].
Diarbekr, [128], [130], [139].
Dionysius, [160].
Disciples of Christ, [145].
Dodge, Dr. Asa, [207].
Druses, [55], [78].
Dunmore, Rev. and Mrs., [130].
Dwight, H. G. O., tour in Asia Minor, [123-126].
Dwight, Henry Otis, quotation, [92].
Edict of Toleration, 1453, [241].
Education, [106], [181];
of priests, [106], [159], [160];
of women, [107], [187];
Lancasterian schools, [160];
theological, [176];
Turkish, [193];
industrial, [234].
Emigration, [236].
England, first treaty relations with Turkey, [34];
seizure of Cyprus, [47];
policy in Turkey, [48].
English taught in schools, [183], [184].
Erzerum, [127], [139].
Eski-Zagra, [173].
Euphrates College, Harpoot, [186], [188], [190], [191], [229].
Evangelical Armenian Church, [161], [165], [166], [167], [168], [174], [177].
Fatalism, [210].
Financial condition, [271].
First Turkish ambassador, [33].
Fisk, Pliny, [87], [119], [120], [121], [145], [149].
Free Church of Scotland, [54].
Germany, policy in Turkey, [48];
influence in Turkey, [270].
Goodell, William, [121], [123], [157], [159], [174], [177], [198], [249].
Grant, Dr. Asahel, [127], [129], [207].
Greco-Turkish war, [121], [123].
Greek Church, [59-62].
Greeks, work among, [143];
in Macedonia, [264].
Gregorian (Armenian) Church, [68-70];
deterioration, [70], [79], [102], [104];
jealousy in, [102];
political organization, [105];
reform in, [150], [165], [237].
Hagopos, [163].
Haig, father of Armenian race, [65].
Hall of the Holy Garment, [96].
Hamid II, see Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
Hamlin, Cyrus, [164], [182], [234].
Harem, [41].
Harpoot, [131];
educational work, [186];
printing-press, [201].
Harpoot Evangelical Union, [228], [229],
“Hatti Sherif of Gul Hane,” granting of religious liberty, [250].
Health of missionary, [122].
Hejaz, [133].
Hepworth, George H., [216];
quotation, [212].
Historical interest in Turkey, [17].
Holmes, Mr., [128].
Hospitals, self-support in, [209], [227], [228].
Industrial education, [234].
Industrial reform, [233].
Imperial Protestant Charter of 1850, [252].
Islam, Koran, [35], [201];
death penalty for change of faith, [133], [250];
fatalism, [210].
Jacobites, [57-59].
Janissaries, [32].
Jerusalem, [122].
Jesuit schools, [183].
Jews, [56], [57];
revival of interest in, [86];
work among, [140], [143].
Kaaba, [95].
Keith-Falconer Mission in Arabia, [133].
King, Jonas, [120], [121], [160].
Koordistan Missionary Society, [229].
Koords, history, [73];
character, [74];
armed by government, [75];
religion, [76], [78].
Koran, [201];
basis of law, [35].
Lancaster, Joseph, [160].
Lancasterian schools, [181].
Lawrence, Edward A., quotation, [14], [64].
Laws, founded on Koran, [35].
Macedonia, Turkish rule in, [261], [263];
uprising in, [264], [276], [279];
reforms promised, [275];
Young
Turk Party in, [279];
constitution restored, [281].
Mahomet I, 1413-1421, [33].
Mahomet II, conqueror of Greek Empire, [33].
Marash, [172], [188].
Maronites, [54].
Martyn, Henry, [124].
Massacres, [218].
Mecca, [94].
Medical missionaries, [207].
Medina, [207].
“Memoirs of William Goodell,” quotation, [232].
Methodist Episcopal Board (U. S.), [146].
Midhat Pasha, [281].
Mineral resources, [24].
Mission policy, [119], [139], [141], [157], [159], [162], [207], [223].
Missionaries, moral influence of, [142];
noted, [177];
contribution to knowledge of country, [115];
to literature, [199];
to industry, [233];
trust in, [216];
relief work, [218];
relation to native churches, [173];
under English protection, [241];
charges against, [255].
Missionary interest, awakening of, [86].
Missions, division of field, [145];
problems of, [115];
object of, [108].
“Mohammedan World of To-day,” quotation, [72], [248], [266].
Mohammedans, contact with Christianity, [113-115], [119], [238];
interest in, [144];
converts, [254], [257];
religious liberty promised, [250];
no religious liberty, [255].
“Multeka,” code of laws, [35].
Native Church, self-support, [224-227];
self-propagation, [228].
New Turk Party, [79], [268], [279].
Nicholas, Czar, epithet applied to, [15].
Norton, Thomas H., quotation, [170].
Nusairiyeh, [53].
Orchan, [32].
Orphans, industrial training of, [234].
Osman, founder of dynasty, [31].
Palestine, missionaries to, [86].
Parker, John M., [138].
Parsons, Levi, [86], [87], [119], [120], [145], [149].
Pashtimaljian school, [160], [181].
Patriarch, Greek, [60];
Gregorian, [69];
power of, [105].
Periodical publications, [200].
Perkins, Mr., [126].
Persecution of “Evangelicals,” [166].
Peters, John P., quotation, [156].
Philippopolis, [173].
Physicians, native, [208].
Pomeroy, Dr., [167].
Population of Turkey, [16].
“Porte, The,” meaning of, [34].
Postal system, [26].
Presbyterian Board of Missions, [146];
work among Maronites, [54].
Press, printing, [172], [197];
freedom guaranteed, [282].
Priests, Christian, low standard of, [103].
Privy council, [36].
Property, right to hold, [244].
Protestant Charter of 1847, [252].
Railroads, [24], [25], [47].
Ramsay, W. M., quotation, [240].
Reformed Church, [145].
Reformed (Dutch) Church of America, in Arabia, [133].
Reforms in Gregorian Church, [237].
Religious liberty granted, [250], [253].
“Researches in Armenia,” Smith and Dwight, [123-126].
Revolutionary parties, [264], [270].
Riggs, Elias, [198].
Roadways, [24].
Robert College, [184], [185], [189], [191].
Roman Catholics, opposition of, [121], [144], [162].
Russell, Earl, [255].
Russia, opposition to missionary work, [182];
influence in Turkey, [268], [270].
Russian Bible Society, [150-152].
St. Gregory the Illuminator, [68].
St. Paul’s Institute, Tarsus, [189].
Salonica, [140].
Samakov, Collegiate and Theological Institute, [187].
Schauffler, Dr., [143], [182].
Schneider, Dr., [171].
Schools, present need of, [286].
Self-support, hospitals, [209], [227];
church, [224], [228];
schools, [226], [228].
Selim III, 1789-1807, reforms of, [85].
Seventh Day Adventists, [145].
Sheik-ul-Islam, [35], [282].
Size of Territory, [16].
Smith, Eli, tour in Asia Minor, [123-126].
Smyrna, [137], [140], [172].
Spies, government, [227];
abolished, [282].
“Sublime Porte,” [34].
Suliman “the great,” 1520-1566, [34].
Sultan Adbul Aziz, [255].
Sultan Abdul Hamid II, succession to throne, [41];
character, [41], [46], [48], [270];
absolute power in government, [35], [43];
in religion, [46], [93], [94], [96];
foreign relations, [47];
attempt to subdue Koords, [75];
system of espionage, [277];
fear of Young Turks, [278];
restores constitution to Macedonia, [281].
Sultan Abdul Medjid, [250], [251];
grants religious liberty, [253].
Syrian Church, [57-59.]
Syrian Protestant College, [187], [190].
Syrians, work among, [121], [144], [173].
Tamerlane, [32], [33].
Taxation, system of, [51], [279].
Telegraphy, [26], [234].
Territory, population, [16];
size, [16].
Theological schools, [190].
Townsend, Meredith, quotation, [22], [30], [100].
Transportation, [25].
“Travels and Researches in Asia Minor,” [138].
Treaty of Berlin, [256].
Treaty of Paris, [253].
Treaty rights, [243].
Trebizond, [127], [139].
“Turk,” religious significance, [77].
Turkey, importance as mission field, [89];
relations with foreign powers, [241];
policy of suppression, [268].
Turkish schools, [193].
Turkomen, [80].
Turks, origin, [31], [77];
character, [79];
dominance over non-Moslems, [78], [81].
Unions of native churches, [176].
United Free Church of Scotland, in Arabia, [133].
United States, Armenians in, [236].
United States, relations with Turkish government, [34], [45], [241], [245].
Vali, power of, [36].
Vartenes, expelled from church, [165].
Vilayet, [36].
Ward, William Hayes, quotation, [148].
Wheeler, Crosby H., [185], [201], [224].
Williams, Talcott, quotation, [274].
Yemen, [133].
Young Turk Party, [278];
in Macedonia, [279].
Zwemer, S. M., quotation, [84].

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