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[s. 786] : A tovsm in Japan, situated on the Shikoku, about 45 miles S. W. of Station of the MES (1888), with (1903) 1 mi ionary and his wife, 1 native worker, 2 outstations, 1 place of worship, 2 Sunday schools, and 80 profe ed Christians, of whom island of Matsuyama. 53 are communicants. VAN A town in Asiatic Turkey, on the east: Lake Van, 145 miles southeast of Erzroom, 350 miles southeast of Trebizond. Climate mild, healthful; elevation 5,500 feet. Population, 30,000, Armenians, Kurds, and Turks. It is now, as it always has been, the center of Armenian influence in Eastern Turkey. On the picturesque rock behind the city are a large number of inscriptions in cuneiform, dating back even earlier than many of the A yrian inscriptions, and relating to a kingdom that preceded the Armenian occupation. Near Van is the island of Aghtamar, the seat of an Armenian Catholicos, whose spiritual rank is equal to that of the Catholicos of Etchmiadzin. His influence, shore of however, is small. Station of the ABCFM (1872), with (1903) 2 mi ionaries and their wives, 1 woman mi ionary, 25 native workers, 2 outstations, 2 places of worship, 2 Sunday schools, 3 day schools, 2 boarding schools, 1 industrial school, 1 hospital, 1 dispensary and 63 profe ed Evangelical Christians. It has not been the policy of the mi ionaries to advise Armenians to join the Evangelical Church if they adopt evangelical ideas. ch149.xhtml v 786