New-York tribune., 1904-09-03

Board Of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
in the Orient. Before his departure Mr. Riggs
gave the following account Of Euphrates College:
ct Standing & on n nearly the highest ground IN the
the plain. the seven buildings OF Euphrates Col
lege, together with the orphanages and missionary
residences OF Harpoot station, form the most con
ssplcu9qs feature Of the city. of Harpoot visible
for miles from the west. south and east. or these
buildings, three are occupied BY the male depart
toTy The scboS is sfn0e n p11 snf ~ 5e ,b 6
mltory building. and the primary school is in
cuped 6y the female department.. and tWo are the
homes of the American teachers and the president.
or these seven buildings only three belong to the
old Euphrates College. The rest have been erected
to the faie a' Of the srss o made IN @ to Wps
out the college In the general devastation OF that
The history OF Euphrates College. IKE that OF
most missionary colleges shows a gradual though
which developed into normal school. with de-
ae sebo5 ISr SS in 70 T9r
as the need was felt for primary education, and
CneIe vIcra icor1o1afed in NIassechusetts and the
Wheeler who served untiI isSS. when he was sue
ceeded bv The Rev Dr' G. f, Gates DR.. Gates's
acceptance of the presidency OF Robert College,
pTssden 9Pd the ie Rev Rev Dr N BTnum on
previous occasions served as acting president Int
the present president took up the work IN 1915
The first class graduated from the male de-
partment In 1850. and the first from the female
department three years later. In the twenty-Io1r
classes OF young men there nave oeen Its st0i9-
EUphrates College Is peculiar IN the multiplicity
OF lis departments. all under management and
on the ground. but in some respects quite dis
tinct from one another aIst Inerg Is s 1nS and
female departments in separate buildings. except
the kindergarten. as the customs and sentiment
OF the land require Each OF these. too. has it's
primary. grammar. high school and collegiate de-
partments making very complex macnlhe- H..
The estimate put upon the work OF the college
and its SST@9I Ib Is Seop aT T ready to
nav far larger sum tuition than IS paid in their
s The 3 Sa e. Psd Resdes % Rs Sa 5Sn pad
as tuition for private music lessons SluS % pupl5
incidentafs 575s o. making a total, paid by the
pupils for the year mot including P4oa rs S S easSa
for poor pupils from orphan and other benevolent
funds $ 81 ' nIns makins s 81 The expenses OF the
college the year aside from American hlsslon-
The course of study is planned TO provide "a col s
lege training suited 20 the special HssuS ; OF sr e
country. Turkish. Armenian anu E.lslisIi & s.sS
taught and mathematics. history and the sciences
nave nave sf ts The aim is to give the students the
necessary training and equipment 10 make thehi
But Esuphrates is distinctly a missionary college
While distinction is made as 20 cnuLGh eonleC re-
tion and a large majority OF the pupils are not
Protestants II Is the avOwed purpose OF th coIIegS
ne 10 lead hnt i'5 10 reaI CHRISTIAN faith Daily Bible
lessons. religious meetings. PERSONA eHoLt 81 al
sorts combined with the ordinary dril Of the class
room all have this one ultimate alIn-t9 Geveiop
Christian leaders In this work ana ann EnphTs1e @
stands alone in the field whiSn SOnpsSeS SUI tb
eighty thousand square miles This region Is ths
home of the Armenian peoPit-d PSOPlc %
eraaf DossIbilites but deadened and dlShetrteneO
81 the conditions in which they live The tuture
r5y,st certainly bring better circumstances IL Is
- onnortunItv OF EuphTateS College to take the
ioa5 n the movement toward new Hfe- Intellect
naI training coupled with deep faith and unselnsh
devotion can make of the youth or this Cnrlstlan
scs an rresistibIe force for the regeneration OK
ISastarn turkey 1t for this purpose that the
college was founded. and 70 this end we labor
and pray.
..Norovian Missions" 4 booklet prepared by the
Rav DR. J. Taylor Hamilton, American member OF
The Mission Board. has just been issued and con-
,a,,s a ra+ecbism OF the missions of the Moravian
Chrrcb. From this catechism il appears that the
1ror, ~ the missions of the Moravlan church be-
s,D in 1872 when Leonard Dober and David
Nitschmann carried the Gospel to the negro slaves
az the West Indies. beginning in the Danish island
90 Ct Thomas The Moravian Church now con-
S.ts missions among the EsKimOs in Labrador
and Alaska the Indians in California. the Indians
and negroes in Nicaragua, the negroes or the west
Indies Demerara Surinam. the Hottentots and
KafBrs OF Cape Colony, the Bsntu tribes In Ger
80 E,ast Africa the BiackfellOwS or Papuans OF
AmstraIia the TbetaE speaking peoples OF kashmlr
aDd ,be Nest Himalayan mOuntalneerS- Besides
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