Within the last twenty-five years the missionary work has been steadily growing in spite of hindrances, persecutions, massacres and forced conversions to Mohammedanism by the Turks. The following brief table of statistics for 1914 may give an idea how the work was progressing before the terrible war of 1915: The number of stations and out stations 370 The total number of missionaries 162 The total native workers 1204 Congregations 272 Organized churches 137 Communicants 13,891 Armenian Protestants 50,900 Sunday Schools 270 Sunday School Membership 29,686 Schools (total) Colleges, 8; Theological Schools, 3; Boarding, etc. 426 Total students 25,134 Hospitals and Dispensaries 19 Patients 39,503 Treatments 134,357 Native Contributions $192,127 FOOTNOTES: [83] Bartlett, “Historical Sketch of the Missions of The American Board in Turkey,” p. 3. [84] The Armeno-Turkish is not a distinct language; it is the Turkish written in Armenian characters. [85] “The Orientals have an admirable kind of coolness and courage. Give them a leader in whom they have confidence, and they will follow him to the death.”--“Cyrus Hamlin.” [86] Prime, “Forty Years in the Turkish Empire,” pp. 173-4. [87] Nergararian, “The History of the Beginnings of Missionary Work in Nicomedia,” pp. 20-21. [88] Muradian, “The History of the Holy Apostolic Church of Armenia,” pages 607-8. (This work is in the original Armenian.) [89] Bartlett, “The Historical Sketch of Missions of A.B.C.F.M. in Turkey,” pp. 10-12 and 14. [90] Hamlin, “Among the Turks,” page 258. “It had been no object of mine to have any balance in hand. It amounted, with what had already been expended for churches mentioned, to $25,000.” [91] Milner, “The Turkish Empire,” pp. 223-4. [92] Bryce, “Transcaucasia and Ararat,” pp. 519-20, the 4th edition. X CAUSES OF PROGRESS, AND HINDRANCES The progress of this wonderful reformation may be ascribed to a few causes or agencies.