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Show INTERIOR OF PROTESTANT CHURCH, OORFA It was in this building, in 1895, that nearly 3,000 Armenians were killed in two days, beginning December 28. The building was set on lire, after kerosene had been sprinkled on the people who had fled there for safety, on mattings, on furniture, and on whatever would burn. Since the terrible days of 1895, the Gregorian Church and the evangelicals have been very close together. The death of Mr. Leslie, referred to elsewhere, leaves this city, with its many appeals, without any missionary in charge cost us all to reach Constantinople, we gave them what money we had left in our small party. But really to help them, we could do nothing; we were powerless to save their lives. "Already the Turks had taken the American school and church, and after a big procession through the streets had consecrated the church into a mosque and made the school a Turkish school. They had taken down the crc^s 28- and put up the crescent. Some weeks before they had exiled the faithful Armenian pastor, who for a great many years had toiled there, as he said, 'to make a little oasis in that desert.' "Hardly had we left the town when we began to meet one train after another, crowded, jammed with these poor people being carried away to some spot where no food could be obtained. At every station at which we stopped |