IX. THE REFORMED CHURCH 153

Condition of Church which Needed Reformation--Roman Catholic

Missionaries--Catholic Armenian Church--Effect upon Armenia

of the European Reformation--Work of the British and Russian

Bible Societies--American Missionaries--“An Oriental

Melancthon”--Translation of New Testament into Armeno-Turkish--Need

of Wise Leadership--Roman and Greek Opposition--Attitude of American

Board of Foreign Missions--A Turkish Pledge Unkept--A Separate

Organization--New Churches--Progress of the Reformation--Preaching

Tours--Family Worship--A Seminary for Women--Anathemas upon the

“Heretics”--The Crimean War--An Edict of Equality Rendered Null and

Void--Continued Persecution--Growth of Evangelical Churches and

Doctrine--Statistics of the Work for 1914.

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