Common Schools a Necessity.--The Four Seminaries.--The Female Boarding Schools.--Tabular View of the Higher Schools.--Marsovan Seminary.--Harpoot Seminaries.--Marash Seminary.--Mardin Seminaries.--Training School at Tocat.--High School at Aintab. --Marsovan Female Seminary.--Harpoot Female Seminary.--Female Boarding School at Aintab.--Marash Female High School.--The ROBERT COLLEGE.--Its Origin.--Obstacles to be overcome.--To be a Christian Institution.--The Founder.--Fully established.--How Obstacles were surmounted.--The College Self-supporting.--Gifts by the Founder. --The Demand for Liberal Education.--_Proposed College in the Interior_.--How the Idea originated.--Interesting Statement from Aintab.--To be located in Aintab. CHAPTER XLV. THE ARMENIANS.--PRESENT CONDITION.--1872. Unreasonable Demands on Foreign Missions.--How the Millennium is made possible.--The Evangelizing Progress.--Changes in the Metropolis of Turkey.--National Progress.--Influence of the Protestant Faith.--Reform in Worship.--The Missionaries Hopeful. --The Degree of Progress.--Illustrations.--The Harpoot Community. --General Statements.--The Result. CHAPTER XLVI. THE MOHAMMEDANS. The Mohammedans to be approached through the Oriental Churches. --Largely of Christian Origin.--Degree of Security for Moslem Converts.--Mohammedan Susceptibility to Christian Influence illustrated.--General Character of the Illustrations.--The Gospel yet in its Incipient Stage of Influence among them.--Why so little Direct Effort hitherto.--Demand for Laborers of the same Race. --Experience favors the Plan hitherto pursued.--The Probable Future.--The Relations of the Missionary to the Moslems.--The Turks not an Unhopeful Race. MISSIONS TO THE ORIENTAL CHURCHES. CHAPTER XXIV. THE ARMENIANS. 1846-1855. Several European governments, and especially England, performed an important part in securing civil and religious freedom to the Protestant Armenians.[1] [1] This is impressively set forth in the _Correspondence respecting the Condition of Protestants in Turkey_, published by order of Parliament in 1851, pp. 154 folio. In March, 1846, Sir Stratford Canning, English Ambassador at Constantinople, reported to his government thirty-six evangelical Armenians as persecuted by the Patriarch. To this he added personal efforts to meliorate their condition, which resulted in promises from Turkish officials and the Patriarch of better treatment, promises that were by no means fulfilled. Upon learning that the Armenian Protestants had been organized into a church, he transmitted to Lord Palmerston, the Foreign Secretary, their declaration of reasons for so doing, and their confession of faith.