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Title: Leavening the Levant
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Greene, Joseph K., 1834-
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: Boston, The Pilgrim Press
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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n an incentive and a bene-diction to many. The Arabian mission, organized in 1889and now called The American Reformed Church Mission, has 32 LEAVENING THE LEVANT wisely used the medical agency for opening the way for theGospel. It has established hospitals at Bahrein, an islandunder British protection in the Persian Gulf, at Kuweit, atMaskat and at Basrah. The work at the latter place is sup-ported by the students connected with the University ofMichigan, who in 1914 subscribed $4,500 for the work. The Arabian mission is reaping the reward of its patientservice in dissipating prejudice and winning the confidenceboth of the Mohammedan rulers and the people. It has metwith grievous loss in the death of both missionaries andnative assistants, but from 1895 to 1912 its force increasedfrom four to thirty-four missionaries, and from eight to twen-ty-seven native assistants. In 1913 the mission reported sixstations and four hospitals, with 89 pupils under instruction,of whom 36 were Moslems.
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O in o E-t ^ W c O 4^ X <! «r Ph ? Q ;^ W o M 5 Eh ce < ^H ? Chapter II THE ARMENIAN QUESTION AND THE YOUNGTURKS * The Armenian Question The writer and his wife, returning to Turkey from a thirdfurlough, arrived at Constantinople on November 5, 1895. Itwas at a time of great excitement and anxiety, for news ofthe massacre of Armenians was coming from the provincesday by day. Everybody was asking, Why do the Turksrob and kill the Armenians? Alas! after the lapse of 20years this inquiry is still heard. To people of every raceand land it seems inexplicable that a sovereign state—a state,moreover, whose population is scarce and which is in desperateneed of tax-payers—that such a state should deliberatelyinstigate and command the destruction of a very considerablepart of its most enterprising and serviceable people. In reply it may be said that Europe, not designedly, butin fact, is largely responsible for the attacks on the Ar-menians. During 500 years the Armenians were quiet

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