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those good ways open to educated Christian women. Our 

 Medical Department, including dispensary and hospital with 

 fifty beds, treated last year 2,229 cases in the clinics, and 

 performed 354 operations requiring anaesthesia. These four 

 institutions, Seminary, College, Girls' School and Hospital, stand 

 side by side under one general administration and with one 

 common aim. Our seal represents the sun rising over a 

 mountain, just as seen from the front door of the College — and 

 Anatolia means the land of the rising sun — and underneath is 

 our motto, " The morning cometh/' 



The Hittites, Turks and Armenians. 



An Occidental, wdio naturally first enters Asia Minor through 

 such a port as Constantinople or Smyrna, is usually profoundly 

 impressed with the lines of national cleavage prevaihng 

 between the different peoples. In race, religion, physical 

 characteristics, social and political customs, and in language, 

 there are fixed and evident boundary lines which people do not 

 pass either by intermarriage or for any other ordinary reason, 

 Asia Minor is ruled by Turks, but they are aliens encamped 

 upon the soil. It does not include Armenia proper, but the 

 history of the Armenians could not be written leaving Asia 

 Minor out. Its boundaries do not march with Greece, but the 

 northern and western coasts have been from time immemorial 

 almost as Greek as Greece itself. The Hittites, perhaps, never 

 ruled the whole, yet some of the richest Hittite finds have been 

 made within its bounds. It is not Kurdish, yet shelters some 

 2,000,000 Kurds. It is separate from Mesopotamia, yet 

 missionary children amuse themselves by picking up cuneiform 

 fragments. It is distant from Egypt, yet its sphinxes are but 

 one of the links of relation with the dwellers along the iSTile. 

 It is far from Eome, but for five hundred years was an 

 important part of the Eoman Empire. It has no Semitic 

 population, but the two religions professed, Mohammedanism 

 and Christianity, were rocked in a Semitic cradle. It does not 

 include the Holy Land, yet at least ten books of the New 

 Testament were first directed to its citizens. The Turkish is 

 but one of several languages commonly spoken, and Osmanli 

 Turkish in its three great elements, Turkish proper, Arabic and 

 Persian, represents not only three languages, but three families 

 of languages, Turanian, Semitic and Aryan. Before he takes 

 ship to depart the hasty traveller is apt to avow that there is 



