_Religious._ Churches organized 155 Other stated preaching places 281 —————— Total number of preaching places 436 Communicants (received on confession of faith) 13,528 Members of Protestant civil communities (adherents) 60,000 Average Sunday congregations 40,000 Sunday-school membership 35,000 _Educational._ Colleges well equipped, for both sexes 5 students Theological seminaries 6 „ 4,085 High-schools for boys 80 „ Boarding-schools for girls „ „ Common schools for both sexes 530 „ 23,315 ——— —————— Total schools of all grades 621 Students 27,400 There are six American institutions in Turkey incorporated under the laws of the United States, and controlled by trustees in that land. _Medical._ There is a well equipped American Medical College and Hospital at Beirut, and American missionary physicians treat, yearly, many thousands of patients of all classes and races throughout the land, both in their dispensaries and in private practice, at a nominal sum and very often gratuitously. _Publishing._ Both weekly and monthly newspapers are published by the American missionaries at Constantinople, in the Armenian, Turkish, Greek, and Bulgarian languages, and an Arabic weekly is published at Beirut. The catalogue of editions of the Scriptures and of religious, educational, and miscellaneous books and tracts in various languages, which may be obtained at the American Bible House, Constantinople, contains separate titles to the number of about 1000. The publications in the catalogue of the Presbyterian Press at Beirut, mostly in Arabic, number 507. The number of copies of the Scriptures (entire or in part) put in circulation by the Levant Agency of the American Bible Society alone, 1847 to 1893, is 1,378,715. The number of copies of the Scriptures (entire or in part) _in languages and type available for Mohammedans_, put in circulation by the same Agency in 1893, was Osmanli-Turkish (Arabic type), 5,392; Arabic language (Arabic type), 34,077; total, 39,469. The number of copies of Scriptures (entire or in part) circulated in Turkey since 1820 amounts to about 3,000,000. The number of copies of other books and tracts for the same period is about 4,000,000. The total number of copies of the Scriptures and of miscellaneous literature circulated is therefore about 7,000,000. [Illustration: ARMENIAN FAMILY, BITLIS. ]