Marsovan has 25,000 population, 10,000 being Armenians, and the
remainder Mohammedans. Marsovan is one of the greatest stations of
the American missionaries. Anatolia College is there; a theological
seminary for young men; and a seminary for girls. The writer was the
pastor of the Evangelical Armenian church there till he was banished,
for the reasons stated in the sketch of him. After this the Turks
burned the girls' school; they tried to burn the boys' college building
also, but did not succeed. Finally they several times massacred the
Armenian Christians, and forced many to accept Mohammedanism.
I have not been able to get exact information about the number of
the martyred Christians in Marsovan, but it is believed that in that
missionary station about 1,000 were massacred altogether. The richest
men among the congregation were murdered, and so thoroughly plundered
that their children are left wholly destitute; and the lives of the
missionaries are in danger.