When we recall the vicissitudes through which this noble race has passed and the persecutions and woes which have pursued it for centuries. we can only express wonder at the mighty record of achievement and the imperishable legacy which it has left for the enrichment of the world. Our admiration for the Armenians is increased when we remember the awful conditions which have surrounded them. particularly under Turkish rule. It is not too much to say that if Armenia had not been invaded and the Armenian race had been permitted to pursue its destiny unmolested by the Tartars and Kurds and Turks. and the Asiatic tribes that were ever at their door. they would have developed into a mighty nation with millions of inliabitants who would have challenged the admiration of the world and been a beacon light to the peoples of the Near East and. indeed. to eastern Europe and western Asia. If the Christian nations of Europe had given help to Arinenia in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. there would have been no Turkish question. The PanTuranian movement would have been halted at the eastern borders of Armenia.