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from our own? At Constantinople there 

 is a college of the faith and order — so 

 far as it is committed to any particular 

 ecclesiastical order — which, unless I am 

 mistaken, is that for which this seminary 

 stands. It was my great privilege to 

 visit it, not long ago, and to spend an 

 evening under the roof of the rare man 

 who is at the head of it. "We are not 

 seeking," said Dr. Washburn, "to w T in 

 these Roumanians, Armenians, Bulgarians 

 and the rest, to abandon their own Chris- 

 tian fellowslrips. We are seeking to send 

 them back, as graduates of this college, 

 filled with a new spirit, to put fresh life 

 into their old forms." And what have 

 been the results of that noble and remark- 

 able work? Some of them can best be 

 appreciated when I say that to-day in 

 Constantinople some five pulpits, if my 

 recollection serves me, are filled with men 

 who are graduates of Robert College, and 

 who are in the orders of the Greek 

 Church, — pulpits which for a generation 

 or more previously had been wholly silent. 

 When I add further that at the time these 

 facts were communicated to me, nearly if 

 not quite every member of the Cabinet of 

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