A History of Protestant missions in the near East

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162 History of Protestant Missions in the Near East unmentioned. In 1844 a society called " The German Evangelical Benevolent Society " (" evangelisch-deutscher Wohltdtigkeitsverein ") was formed in Stamboul, at the recommendation of the chaplain of the Prussian embassy, the Kev. Mr. Major. In 1852 three Kaiserswerth deaconesses entered its service- When the sisters removed, in 1877, into the hospital built by the German government, their work increased. The number of deaconesses is, at present, seventeen. This hospital is open to people of every nationality ; it has about 1,500 in-patients a year. In 1853 the deaconesses, at the urgent request of well-to-do Protestants there, opened in Smyrna a higher girls' boarding-school. The boarding department, however, had to be given up in 1891, owing to the keen competition of the Greek Church and the Jesuits, the institution becoming merely a day-school. An orphanage in connection with it, originally intended for Levantine girls, did excellent work after the Armenian massacres, admitting 120 Armenian orphan girls. The Friends adopted a small medical mission, begun by Miss Burgess in 1881 for the Armenian population in Constantinople, two lady missionaries with two native assistants being secured. Connected with it are an orphanage, a dayschool, and a needlework industry, to provide work for 250 poor Armenian women. A Miss "West also opened, in 1880, a Christian refuge and coffee-room. The American Disciples of Christ (Campbellites) began in 1879 a mission in Constantinople, which the American Board justly regarded as an intrusion into its own sphere. It was in the following years extended to many stations in Asia Minor and Northern Syria, the centres being Sivas (1882), Marsovan and Tokat (1883), Aintab, Marash, Albistan, Haleb and Antioch. But there were never many Americans in the mission and it has since been given up. In connection with a vigorous Protestant propaganda promoted by Bishop Gobat of Jerusalem in 1863, the Armenian Bishop Megerdich, of Aintab, joined the Anglican Church. He succeeded in attracting a good many members to his congregation, partly from the Gregorians and partly from the
strong Protestant Missions in Turkey and Armenia 163 and influential Protestant church of his town. This naturally caused some ill feeling. With the help of subscriptions from England a church building on a grand scale was begun, but was never finished. The Anglican congregation still exists, but has never become very influential. An Armenian who had left the Board, the Eev. H. Jenanyan, after having enjoyed a theological training in America, founded in 1888 a free mission in Cilicia, which was by principle independent of foreign management, though, unhappily, not of American money. It gradually adopted three stations, Tarsus (1888), Konia and Marash (1889). In these stations it maintains schools for boys and girls, and orphanages. Mesopotamia has been somewhat neglected by the Protestant Mission, being rather inaccessible and the conditions there being unfavourable. This ancient cradle of human culture proves to-day, by the desolation of its plains and the general insecurity of life within its borders, the helplessness of the Turkish administration. Its three centres are Mosul, Bagdad and Basra, towns wrapped in the glamour of fairy tale. "We have already told (p. 116f.) how, between the years 1841 and 1860, Mosul was repeatedly occupied by the American the Mountain Board to serve as a centre for work among Syrians. After their final retirement, Protestant missions were not represented for thirty years in these headquarters of -the Eoman propaganda. In 1892 the American Presbyterians, who, in the meantime, had taken over the Nestorian Mission in Persia from the American Board, decided to reoccupy Mosul. But in spite of repeated attempts they did not succeed in coming into close touch with the independent Syrians of the wild mountains, on account of the intervening plain and hills where the Roman propaganda was in full force. They therefore handed over their station in 1900 to the Church Missionary Society, which was planning to establish a second station in " Turkish Arabia," in addition to their first station, Bagdad. The chief work of the Church Missionary Society here was the medical mission, for which a
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