Sivas is the seat of the vilayet or province of Sivas. The
Governor-General of that province resides there. The population
is about 30,000; one-third are Christian Armenians, and there are
many Armenian Christian towns and villages round about, so that,
if the Armenians are not more numerous than the Mohammedans, they
equal them in number. Sivas is a missionary station, and during the
atrocities, the Protestant Armenian pastor also was killed. His name
was Garabet-Kilitjiam, one of the most gifted ministers of the gospel,
my personal friend and successor. After I resigned my pastorate
at Talas, Cesarea, he succeeded me. He was offered the choice of
accepting Mohammedanism, but refused it, and then he was martyred.
In the city and province of Sivas during the recent atrocities
about 10,000 Armenians were killed, and many villages and towns were
plundered and destroyed.