Table of Contents

PREFACE. 5

TABLE OF CONTENTS. 9

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 13

INTRODUCTION. 15

I. EARLY HISTORY OF ARMENIA. 21

THE SARACENS IN ARMENIA. 31

BOGHA THE TYRANT. 33

THE THIRD ARMENIAN DYNASTY. (A. D. 856.) 36

II. THE RISE OF ISLAM. 44

III. THE STORY OF THE FIRST CRUSADE. 72

THE CRUSADE OF THE MOB. 83

THE CRUSADE OF KINGS AND NOBLES. 86

IV. THE GREAT TARTAR INVASIONS. 104

THE DYNASTY OF THE SELJUKIAN TURKS. (A. D. 1038–1152.) 106

V. THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE. 135

VI. THE BULGARIAN MASSACRE. 159

VIENNA NOTE. 165

VII. THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR. 185

VIII. THE SULTAN ABDUL HAMID. 213

IX. PROGRESS AND POWER OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. 250

A CHAPTER OF MISSION HISTORY IN TURKEY. 250

HAVE MISSIONS IN TURKEY BEEN A FAILURE? 257

MODERN TRIUMPHS OF THE GOSPEL IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. 262

THE OUTCOME. 264

THE OUTLOOK. 275

X. THE KURDS AND ARMENIANS. 277

ARMENIA IN THE MOUNTAINS. 282

XI. THE REIGN OF TERROR. 303

SASSOUN. 321

XII. THE REIGN OF TERROR—TREBIZOND AND ERZEROUM. 341

XIII. THE REIGN OF TERROR—VAN AND MOUSH. 360

XIV. THE REIGN OF TERROR—HARPOOT AND ZEITOUN. 383

XV. RELIEF WORK IN ARMENIA. 400

XVI. THE CURSE OF ISLAM. 423

XVII. THE GREATEST CRIME OF THE CENTURY. 433

TREATY OF BERLIN. 442

ANGLO-TURKISH (CYPRUS) CONVENTION. 442

GLADSTONE ON ARMENIA’S FATE. 450

XVIII. AMERICA’S DUTY AND PRIVILEGE. 470

THE CASE OF DR. CHRISTIE. 478

HEROISM OF MISSIONARIES. 480

DUTY OF THE POWERS. 482

CULLOM’S ARMENIAN RESOLUTION. 483

APPENDIX. DESCRIPTION OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS. 495