Identifier: leaveninglevant00gree (find matches)
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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i-ous and intelligent. During six hundred years of Turkish oppression they haveshown a wonderful power of recovery from disaster andmassacre, and as farmers, artisans and traders have alwaysforged ahead. They have formed an important part of thebody politic in Turkey, and their unequal and unjust treat-ment by the Turks has been a stupid blunder and an unspeak-able crime. In all the sad and bitter experiences of the pastcenturies the Armenians have been held together and savedfrom extinction by their loyalty to the church, and ratherthan deny Christ multitudes have suffered martyrdom. Inthe early part of the fifth century a learned Armenian, namedMesrob, invented the Armenian alphabet, and subsequentlyhe and two companions made an excellent translation of theBible into Armenian. The sad thing about the Armeniansis that in all their history they have suffered loss from in-ability to harmonize their views and pull together. May Godteach them wisdom at the present time, and make them the
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ARMENIAS GRAND OLD MANMUGERDITCH KHRIMIAN, HAIOTZ HAIRIG The late Catholicos, head of the Gregorian Church. THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE 21 means of great blessing to Turkey and to the other landswhere they are scattered. Further information respecting the Armenians is given inChapter II, entitled The Armenian Question. The Jews In the early part of the nineteenth century the Jews inPalestine were few in number and in a pitiable condition.Tolerated by the Moslems but not esteemed, despised by theChristians, without landed propert)^ or lucrative business,they were strangers in their fatherland and miserably poor.It was natural that the Christians of America should pitythe Jews, and it was fitting that the officers of the AmericanBoard, in sending missionaries to Turkey in 1819, shouldthink, first of all, of establishing a mission in Jerusalem.Owing to the hardness of heart of the Jews and the greaterhopefulness of work in other fields, the purpose of the Ameri-can Board to preach the Gospel

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