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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.