Chapter VIII · THE ARMENIANS.—1836-1840.
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Trebizond.—Favoring Circumstances.—Improvement in the Publishing Department.—Progressive Civilization among the Turks.—Papal Opposition.—Signs of Progress.—Education of Women.—Active Usefulness of Der Kevoork.—Death of Peshtimaljian.—Deaths by the Plague.—Missionary Convocation.—Remarkable Occurrence.—Serope at Broosa.—Vertanes and Haritun.—Year of Persecution.—Causes of the Persecution.—The Sultan enlisted.—Deposition of the Patriarch Stepan.—Banishment of Hohannes.—Zeal of the Persecutors. —Cooeperation of the Greek Synod.—An Imperial Firman.—Efforts to Expel the Missionaries.—Divine Providence effectually interposes. —The Power of the Persecution broken.—Hohannes recalled.—The Persecutors brought low.—Stepan restored to Office.