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Identifier: 07244119.1178.emory.edu
Title: A dictionary of religious knowledge (electronic resource): for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 Conant, Thomas Jefferson, 1802-1891
Subjects: Theology Religion
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
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Smyr-na, and Beirut; the Church Missionary Soci-ety, in Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Naz-areth ; several Palestine societies in Jerusa-lem, Joppa, etc.; a society for converting theJews in Constantinople and Palestine; andyet other societies, some of which, like theKaiserwerth Deaconesses, and the LebanonSchool Union, give their efforts mainly toinstruction. An outgrowth from, and a powerful auxil-iary to, missions in the empire are the largeinstitutions of learning which have been es-tablished. Besides the elementary and thetheological schools directly connected withthe missions, the independent colleges atConstantinople and Beirut deserve especialmention. The former (Robert College) wasfounded by the liberality of Christopher R.Robert, a merchant of New York, and oc-cupies the finest site along the Bosphorus.That at Beirut is called the Syrian Protest-ant College, and has an excellent school ofmedicine attached to it. The discovery that there still existed in MISSIONS 631 MISSIONS
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1- Am. Board (Cong.); 2. Am. Presb. M. S.; 3. Am. United Presb. M. S.; 4. Am. Eef. Presb. M. S.; 5. Am.Southern Presb. M. S.; 6. Am. Meth. Epis. M. S.; T. Am. Prot. Epis. M. S.; S. Am. Bapt. M. S.; 9. Eng.Church M. S.; 10. Scotch Estab. Ch. M. S.; 11. Scotch Free Ch. M. S.; 12. Irish Presb. M. S.; 13. BishopGobots M.; 14. Jerusalem Verein; 15. Kaiserswertn Deaconesses; 16. Independent Missions. MISSIONS 632 MISSIONS the north-western portion of Persia a rem-nant of the old Nestorian Church inducedthe American Board to commence a missionthere in 1833. The policy was for manyyears continued of attempting no separatechurch organization, but of endeavoring toinfuse Christian life into that which alreadyexisted. The Bible was translated into themodern Syriac, schools and seminaries or-ganized, and a wide influence exerted. Thenumber of this people is limited, only about30,000 living in the plain of Oroomiah, and120,000 Syriac - speaking Christians in theKoordish mountains and the Tigris va

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