What Next in Turkey: Glimpses of the American Board's Work in the Near East |
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Page 168 - There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life : as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee : I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Page 168 - From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.
Page 72 - I do not believe that in the whole history of missions; I do not believe that in the history of diplomacy, or in the history of any negotiations carried on between man and man, we can find anything to equal the wisdom, the soundness, and the pure evangelical truth of the body of men who constitute the American mission.
Page 48 - Adam is the chosen of God ; Noah, the preacher of God ; Abraham, the friend of God ; Moses, the spokesman of God ; Jesus, the word of God ; and Mohammed, the apostle of God.
Page 49 - ... leaps and runs about the sick-bed in pursuit of the malignant spirit. The hypothesis is that only a wolf can overtake a wolf-pain. Often the chase is kept up for hours, and the doctor may have well-nigh exhausted the fauna of the place before he finally lights on the proper animal. In the meanwhile no morsel of food or drop of water is allowed to pass the sufferer's lips, and the women, with beating of hands and stamping of feet, keep up the perpetual drone of the medicine-song, a chant so harrowing...
Page 69 - You have sects enough among you already, and we have no design of setting up a new one, or of pulling down your churches, or drawing away members from them in order to build up our own. No ; let him that is a Greek be a Greek still, and him that is an Armenian be an Armenian still.
Page 48 - Law of Moses, the Psalms of David, the Gospel of Jesus, and the Koran of Mohammed.
Page 140 - British and American warships, who had passed through the Boxer riots, the siege of Port Arthur and the San Francisco earthquake said they had never seen anything to compare with the destruction of life and property in this district. From three to five thousand people fell in Adana alone, while something like 25,000 perished in the outside districts.
Page 70 - Armenians in business found their shops boycotted; teachers and priests were banished; men and women were stoned on the streets, hung up by the thumbs, spat upon and smitten in the face, tortured with the bastinado, thrown into prison without open charge or trial. Spies were everywhere.
Page 69 - ... satanic heresiarchs from the caverns of hell and the abyss of the northern ocean," proving that not the missionaries alone had a command of language.