Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. ARMENIA AND THE ARMENIAN CHURCH. " Their nationality and tl1eir church can hardly fail to take an important par in determining the future of the East."—Tozer. GEOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTRY. Armenia lies just south of the Caucasian Mountains, and between the Black and Caspian Seas. The more exact boundaries of the country are: on the north, the Caucasian Mountains and the Georgian Provinces; on the east, the Caspian Sea and Persia; on the south, Assyria and Mesopotamia; on the west, Asia Minor. The whole territory is a little larger than the State of Pennsylvania. The location of Eden, the home of our first parents, is a question among geographers. Armenians claim that Eden was in Armenia, and I do not think that there are reasonable objections to their claim. The general character of Armenia is mountainous ; it is about 6,000 feet above the level of the sea. Here is the magnificent Ararat, (14,000 feet high) which was witness of one of the most remarkable events in the history of the world. The ark of Noah rested upon the dome of Ararat, which is the sentinel of Armenia. The eminent traveller Morier says: " Nothing can be more beautiful than the shape, more awful than the height of Ararat. All surrounding mountains sink into insignificance when compared to it. It is perfect in all its parts, everything is in harmony, and renders it one of the sublimest objects in nature. From here descend the Acampis to the Black Sea, the Araxis to the Caspian Sea, and the Tigris and Euphrates to the Persian Gulf." Armenian people are very boastful indeed that the first pages of the Bible cast light upon their national history. Armenia abounds in streams and lakes. The country is the home of various kinds of vegetable productions, cattle, etc. Its climate is very healthy....