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MISSIONS IN SYRIA AND ASIA MINOR.



Mission. Monthly - 1897 - There are in Syria and Palestine 252 foreign laborers, men and women; 168 being in Syria and 84 in Palestine. Of the 168 in Syria there are men, 73; wives, 34; unmarried women, 61. Of the 84 in Palestine there are men, 34; wives, 14; unmarried women 36; the totals of the 252 in Syria and Palestine being 107 men, 48 wives, and 97 unmarried women. Of the men S3 are ordained, and 26 are physicians, and one of the unmarried women is a physician. This is certainly a large corps, and should be effective in doing great good to the souls and bodies of the people.

The population of Syria and Palestine is not far from two million six hundred thousand. This gives, on an average, one foreign laborer to every ten thousand of the people. But it should be born in mind that a large part of these laborers are engaged in educational work, having under instruction not far from nineteen thousand children and youths. 

For this reason certain centers like Beyroot [Beirut], Damascus, and Jerusalem have more than their share of foreign laborers, while some of the outlying districts have none. Beyroot has fifty-two foreign laborers, with a population of one hundred thousand. Of these twenty-two are in the Syrian Protestant College, and almost all of the rest are in various institutions, American, English, Scotch, and German.

Jerusalem, with a population not half that of Beyroot [Beirut / Lebanon], has twenty-eight laborers, who have charge of schools, hospitals, and general evangelistic work.

The large institutions like the Syrian Protestant College, the Prussian Orphanage, and the British Syrian Institution for educating teachers, the American Female Seminary, and the Hospital of the Protestant Knights of St. John in Beyroot, with the boarding schools, orphanages, and hospitals in Damascus, Brummana, Nazareth, Jaffa, Bethlehem, Tiberias, and Jerusalem, will no doubt remain for many years to come in foreign hands and be maintained by foreign funds. It will be a long time before the men or the means can be found in this land to conduct such institutions.

And in the evangelistic work, the founding of churches and communities, the obstacles of self-support are very great. The people seem to be growing poorer instead of richer. In Asia Minor the flourishing self-supporting churches in Aintab, Marash, and Kharpoot have been well-nigh blotted out by the recent massacres.

In Syria and Palestine tens of thousands of the active and enterprising young men have emigrated to North and South America and Australia, depleting and almost destroying various little country churches.

Whatever may be said by defenders of the government, it is not denied that it is the fixed policy to obstruct the building of churches and the opening of schools by Christians everywhere and always. Christianity is at a discount.

On the other hand, the Eastern and Western Churches, the Russian and Roman, are now engaged in a desperate struggle for the preponderance of political and ecclesiastical influence in the historic land. Russian and French gold are pouring into the country. Priests, monks, fathers, brothers, sisters, clerical and lay, swarm in all the historic and non-historic sites. Rival buildings, churches, schools and hospitals spring up in Galilee, Samaria and Judea, and all through the mountains and seacoast cities of Syria. They fight one another....

The Russians now have thirty-four schools in Palestine and Syria. The redeeming feature of these schools is the fact that they require the use of the Arabic Scriptures as a textbook in all their schools, using the [original] translation of Dr. Van Dyck, published at the American Press. They are also using numerous religious, moral, and educational works from the American Press.

All their schools are free. Tuition and books are given without money, so that even in places where the people have been willing to pay a moderate sum for the education ' of their children, they now can have it for nothing. With the Jesuits on the one side, and the Russians on the other, bidding for pupils, you can hardly expect the principle of self-support to gain ground in the little Protestant communities.

And yet solid progress has been made. The natives of Syria contributed during 1895 for the education of their children in Protestant schools and for church expenses the sum of $19,000 which is a very creditable showing. Of this sum $11,000 was paid as board and tuition to the Syrian Protestant College. Yet during the first few years of this college almost all the pupils were taught gratuitously [Free]. The Female Seminary of the American Mission received last year $1,200 from pupils, whereas thirty years ago its boarders were lodged, fed, taught and clothed without charge.—Henry H. Jessup, D. D. in Mission News. 

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THERE IS NOT ONE CHRISTIAN NATION ON EARTH WHERE MUSLIMS ARE PERSECUTED.

Yet in most nations where the majority of the population are Muslims, there is systematic government persecution of Christians.

 CI NON È UNA NAZIONE CRISTIANA SU TERRA DOVE I MUSULMANI PERSECUTED. Tuttavia nella maggior parte delle nazioni dove la maggior parte della popolazione è musulmani, ci è persecution sistematico di governo dei cristiani

ER IS NIET ÉÉN CHRISTELIJKE NATIE TER WERELD WAAR MOSLIMS WORDEN VERVOLGD. Maar toch in de meeste naties waar de meerderheid van de bevolking Moslims is, is er systematische overheidsvervolging van Christenen

ES GIBT NICHT EINE CHRISTLICHE NATION AUF MASSE, IN DER MOSLEMS VERFOLGT WERDEN. Dennoch in den meisten Nationen, in denen die Majorität der Bevölkerung Moslems sind, gibt es systematische Regierung Verfolgung der Christen.

"Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance."

--Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights--

Christian Conversions - According to the Bible - Can NEVER be forced.

Any Conversion to Christianity which would be "Forced" would NOT be recognized by God. It is in His True and KIND nature, that those who come to Him and choose to believe in Him, must come to Him OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL.



Don't Let anyone tell you that Christians support Forced Conversions.

That is False. True Christianity is NEVER forced.

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Le conversioni cristiane - secondo la bibbia - possono MAI essere forzate. Nessuno che fossero un cristiano allineare forzerebbero o compell chiunque da diventare un cristiano contro il loro propri. Il motivo per questo è quello che agisce contro la volontà o contro l'intenzione di qualcuno sia un'azione di disrespect al dio. Alcuna conversione a christianity che sarebbe "forzato" non sarebbe riconosciuta da God. È nel suo allineare e la natura GENTILE, quella coloro che viene a lui e sceglie credere in lui, deve venire a lui della LORO PROPRIA VOLONTÀ LIBERA. Il dio cristiano è abbastanza grande capire come rispondere a coloro che decide che non desiderano conoscerle o capire. Il lavoro dei cristiani deve continuare a comunicare l'amore del dio a tutto che sia disposto a sentire parlare di esso. Molti popolano persino oggi, non desiderano sentire parlare del dio cristiano. Più specificamente, che cosa quella gente non desidera è affinchè senta parlare della bontà del dio cristiano. Quella gente è impaurita che se scoprite circa la bontà e la qualità e l'amore del dio cristiano, quello che potete desiderare per scoprirgli più circa. E quella gente è impaurita che il dio che servono sarebbe opposto a vostro scoprire la verità circa il dio di christianity che offre per sempre la vita Eterna a coloro che chiede esso e decide credere in lui e scoprire più dal libro denominato "il nuovo Testamento". Quello è il timore reale di coloro che oppone il dio cristiano. Non lasci chiunque dirvi che il supporto dei cristiani abbia forzato le conversioni. Quello è falso. Il christianity allineare non è MAI forzato

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The right to change one's belief or religion
The right to join together and express one's belief

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