It is impossible, and incompatible with our present purpose, to give a fuller account of the grand work of reformation, which is bound to triumph and reconquer the countries once under the sway of the power of the gospel of our Lord.
Twenty-five years ago, there were one hundred and ten churches and eleven thousand and ninety-five members, seventy-four ordained ministers and one hundred and twenty-nine preachers, and eighty-five other helpers, and two hundred and three places for stated preaching, with thirty-one thousand six hundred and eighteen average attendants to services, twenty thousand six hundred Sabbath school scholars and a community of forty-five thousand Protestants, who had contributed $48,941 for all purposes during the year (1890-1891).
Within the last twenty-five years the missionary work has been steadily growing in spite of hindrances, persecutions, massacres and forced conversions to Mohammedanism by the Turks. The following brief table of statistics for 1914 may give an idea how the work was progressing before the terrible war of 1915:
| The number of stations and out stations | 370 |
| The total number of missionaries | 162 |
| The total native workers | 1204 |
| Congregations | 272 |
| Organized churches | 137 |
| Communicants | 13,891 |
| Armenian Protestants | 50,900 |
| Sunday Schools | 270 |
| Sunday School Membership | 29,686 |
| Schools (total) Colleges, 8; Theological Schools, 3; Boarding, etc. | 426 |
| Total students | 25,134 |
| Hospitals and Dispensaries | 19 |
| Patients | 39,503 |
| Treatments | 134,357 |
| Native Contributions | $192,127 |
FOOTNOTES:
[83] Bartlett, “Historical Sketch of the Missions of The American Board in Turkey,” p. 3.
[84] The Armeno-Turkish is not a distinct language; it is the Turkish written in Armenian characters.
[85] “The Orientals have an admirable kind of coolness and courage. Give them a leader in whom they have confidence, and they will follow him to the death.”—“Cyrus Hamlin.”
[86] Prime, “Forty Years in the Turkish Empire,” pp. 173-4.
[87] Nergararian, “The History of the Beginnings of Missionary Work in Nicomedia,” pp. 20-21.