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suitable teachers. A Moslem in one city obtained possession of a piece of government property not in use, put
u p a new school building on the plan of the Hamadan
Boys School building, and turned it over to the missionary
in charge of that station for a boys school. Then he added
his Government pension to help defray its running expenses. Similar conditions prevail in Tabriz and Isfahan,
and to a certain extent did obtain in Urumia before war
conditions put a stop to all mission work; Is it any wonder
that our Mission is putting forth every effort to keep all
its schools at a high level of efficiency, that it has bought
spacious grounds just outside one of the city gates of
Teheran, and is erecting buildings suitable for an American college?
T h e Persian girls as well as the boys are crowding into
the mission schools. I n 1886 a large new building was
erected in Teheran for a girls boarding school. It was
then largely patronized by the Armenians. Now the
Armenians have their own school, and that building is
inadequate for the need of the Moslem girls day school.
Recently a fine piece of property, just inside the city, has
been purchased to meet these growing needs.
T h u s we see that the Moslems see education in a new
light. Their educated young people are the finest asset
of Persia. M a y these educators, who have a reputation
f o r turning out able and enlightened young men and
women, be liberally supported by the gifts and sympathetic prayers of American Christians.
As to literature, Dr. Bruce, the pioneer missionary of
the Church Missionary Society, at Julfa, Isfahan, devoted
his splendid talents to the perfecting of the translation
of the Old and N e w Testaments into the beautiful Persian
language. T h e Persians have so interested themselves in
reading this edition that the plates have been worn out in
meeting their demands. T h a t translation has lately been
revised by committees of the two Missions, and it is at
present going through the press. Dr. Wright, an American missionary at Tabriz, revised the translation of the
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