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OEDINAEY GENEEAL MEETING 



WAS HELD IN THE EOOMS OF THE INSTITUTE, ON 

 MONDAY, MARCH 18th, 1907. 



Martin L. Eouse, Esq., B.L., in the Chaipv. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed, and the 

 following candidates were put forward by the Council for election : 



Member. — Dr. George H. Martin, M.D., San Francisco. 

 Associate. — Rev. Edwin C. Dixon, M.A., Wisconsin, U.S.A. 



The following paper was then read by the Author : — 



SURVIVALS OF PRIMITIVE RELIGION AMONG 

 THE PEOPLE OF ASIA MINOR. By tlie Eev. G. E. 

 White, Dean of Anatolia College. (With Elates.) 



Introduction. 



IT is a pleasnre to act on the suggestion of the Secretary, 

 and submit to the Institute a brief statement of the 

 American Mission work at Marsovan, Asiatic Turkey, and 

 especially at Anatolia College, with which for sixteen years the 

 present speaker has been connected. 



The American Board of Commissioners for Eoreign Missions, 

 the organ of the Congregational Churches of the United States, 

 have a very extensive work in the Ottoman Empire, and have 

 received much sym])athy and direct and indirect assistance 

 from Jhitish philanthropists and statesmen. Direct Christian 

 effort for Turks is debarred by Mohammedan prejudice, but 

 there are millions of Oriental Clnistians under the Turkish 

 theocracy whose condition is pitiable. They are chiefly 

 Armenians and Greeks. The language of their churches is 

 practically dead to tlie common people. The common clergyare 

 but slightly educated. The only schools for the children are 

 those maintained by their impoverished religious comnnmities. 

 Agriculture, industry, and commerce are carried on under tho 



