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Title: Modern Persia

Author: Mooshie G. Daniel

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MODERN PERSIA

BY

RABBI MOOSHIE G. DANIEL,

McCORMICK SEMINARY
_Late Professor of Ancient Syriac in Oroomiah College, Persia._

WHEATON COLLEGE PRESS
WHEATON, ILL.
1897.

Copyrighted 1897,
by Mooshie G. Daniel

TO THE CLASS OF 1897
OF MCCORMICK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,
THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

The author, in spending four years in America, has come in contact with
different classes of people who have raised serious questions
concerning modern Persia.

Those who are interested in politics and government, have asked: Is
modern Persia a province of Turkey? Is it as large as the state of
Michigan? Is the king still absolute as in ancient times? Have the laws
of the Medes and Persians undergone no change? Are there any remains of
Persia's ancient beauty and grandeur?

These, and questions like these, have been from time to time presented
to the author. On the other hand it is to be observed that many
journalists traveling through Persia have greatly misrepresented that
country. Their limited stay made it impossible for them to acquire any
accurate knowledge of the country.

It is no easy task to familiarize oneself with the ideas and customs of
that ancient and historic country. To thousands in Persia the
literature and history of their own land is a sealed book.

Questions the most serious and earnest have been raised by godly
ministers and devoted people who have for years been generous givers to
the cause of Foreign Missions. I have been asked questions like these:
Is there a solid foundation established by missions in Persia? What has
the gospel done? What changes have taken place? What are some of the
fruits of our mission work over there? What are some of the temporal
improvements? Very recen