is a noble and fitting monument to his memory. It is the business center of all the American Board missions in Turkey, and the headquarters of American and British and Foreign Bible Societies in the East.

Daniel Bliss, born in 1823, in Georgia, Vt., also an Amherst and Andover graduate, was for thirty-eight years president of the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut, and for fourteen years more the beloved President Emeritus, living to see in his ninety-third year the completion of fifty years of college history. During that time the student body grew from sixteen to nearly a thousand, studying under eighty teachers (not a few from New England) in seven departments, on a campus of fifty acres covered with twenty-six buildings, with a graduate body of twenty-five hundred. He was succeeded in 1902 by his son, the late Howard S. Bliss, an Amherst graduate of rare beauty and strength of character. He and his colleagues succeeded in keeping the doors of the college open during the war.

William Goodell first opened his eyes in Templeton, Mass., in 1792. When nineteen years of age he trudged from Phillips Academy to Salem, Mass., to attend at the Tabernacle Church the ordination of the first five missionaries of the American Board. Then and there was born in him the passion to put his life also into the uplifting of lands beyond the sea.

After starting his school for girls in Constantinople, he went on to plant the seed in Beirut, passing through many scenes of violence and being obliged occasionally to appeal to the British ambassador for assistance. His great work was the translation of the Bible into Turkish.

Elias Riggs, a graduate of Amherst College and Andover Seminary, scored the unprecedented record of sixty-eight years in Turkey with only one visit to the United States. He kept at work until the day of his death at the advanced age of ninety years. For more than forty years he preached in one of the eighteen dialects he knew. His monumental work was the giving of the Bible to four nations in their own language-Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece and Armeniabesides Bible dictionaries, commentaries and an unrecorded number of books, hymns and general publications.

You turn another page in the annals of New England seed-sowing in the Near East and come upon the name of Cyrus Hamlin, the most versatile man of that early group. Born in 1811 at Waterford, Me., taking his preparatory course at Brighton (Me.) Academy, toiling from 5 A. M. until 10 P. M., breakfasting on mathematics, dining on dead languages and supping on sciences, being able to recite from memory the first book of the Eneid--what might not such a mind have

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CYRUS HAMLIN

OUNDER and first president of Robert College on the Bosphorus, master of so many trades and professions that the Turks called him the Yankee Satan. Prominent in the Crimean War as baker of bread for the English Government, from the profits of which he built thirteen churches in the Turkish Empire.

accomplished in the field of pure scholarship, had he not when a student at Bowdoin come under the influence of Munson and Lyman-New England men, by the way-home on a furlough from the island of Sumatra in the Pacific, where they afterwards became martyrs? They helped to send young Hamlin overseas to found the seminary for boys at Bebek, and to become one of the most potent personalities in the Turkish Empire. He was a match for the Sultan and his courtiers at their own game, and so clever and persistent in the pushing of his schemes that the Turks called him the Yankee Satan.

One day a New York merchant, Christopher R. Robert, visiting Constantinople, saw a boat loaded with the sweet-smelling bread that Cyrus Hamlin had helped the Armenians to make. This trifling incident led him to put large sums of money into the college on the Bosphorus, which came to bear his name. To it students have come from the lands clustering around Constantinople for the last fifty years, where they were trained to become leaders in their own countries. At one time four members of the Bulgarian cabinet were graduates of Robert. Dr. Hamlin, with his quiet strength, his inventiveness, his imperturbability and his capacity for bringing things to pass, was the heart and soul of the institution until he returned to America and became President of Middlebury College. In