Common Schools a Necessity.—The Four Seminaries.—The Female
Boarding Schools.—Tabular View of the Higher Schools.—Marsovan
Seminary.—Harpoot Seminaries.—Marash Seminary.—Mardin
Seminaries.—Training School at Tocat.—High School at Aintab.
—Marsovan Female Seminary.—Harpoot Female Seminary.—Female
Boarding School at Aintab.—Marash Female High School.—The ROBERT
COLLEGE.—Its Origin.—Obstacles to be overcome.—To be a Christian
Institution.—The Founder.—Fully established.—How Obstacles were
surmounted.—The College Self-supporting.—Gifts by the Founder.
—The Demand for Liberal Education.—Proposed College in the
Interior.—How the Idea originated.—Interesting Statement from
Aintab.—To be located in Aintab.
CHAPTER XLV. THE ARMENIANS.—PRESENT CONDITION.—1872.
Unreasonable Demands on Foreign Missions.—How the Millennium is
made possible.—The Evangelizing Progress.—Changes in the
Metropolis of Turkey.—National Progress.—Influence of the
Protestant Faith.—Reform in Worship.—The Missionaries Hopeful.
—The Degree of Progress.—Illustrations.—The Harpoot Community.
—General Statements.—The Result.
CHAPTER XLVI. THE MOHAMMEDANS.
The Mohammedans to be approached through the Oriental Churches. —Largely of Christian Origin.—Degree of Security for Moslem Converts.—Mohammedan Susceptibility to Christian Influence illustrated.—General Character of the Illustrations.—The Gospel yet in its Incipient Stage of Influence among them.—Why so little Direct Effort hitherto.—Demand for Laborers of the same Race. —Experience favors the Plan hitherto pursued.—The Probable Future.—The Relations of the Missionary to the Moslems.—The Turks not an Unhopeful Race.