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Dr. Cobb has boon a member of the Hoard for the last twelve years,
during which time he lias taken an active part in its deliberations.
Through his deep interest in and earnest advocacy of the foreign
missionary work of our Church he has led the West End Collegiate
Church, of which he is the Minister, into generous support of the
work of the Board. 'This Church is maintaining several missionaries
laboring at home and on the foreign held and has contributed espe­
cially to the large medical work carried on by the Amoy Mission. >
Furthermore, Dr. Cobb bears a name that has long been identified
with the missionary interests of the Reformed Church. His grand­
father, Sanford Cobb, Esq., one of New York’s active business men
through many years, was a member of the Board for twenty-two years
until his death. TLis uncle, the Rev. Henry N. Cobb, D.D., as is known
to all, was Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions
for nearly thirty years. Dr. Cobb, therefore, worthily followed a
worthy succession, and the Board of Foreign Missions anticipates
continued activity and prosperity with him as its President.

Why the Holy War Failed

Rev. John Van Ess, Busrah, Mesopotamia

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%• REV. JOHN VAN ESS
With the cries of the massacred Armenians still in our ears can we
say that the holy war failed? The massacre of the Armenians, how­ )
ever, was not the result of the holy war, but was entirely a politico-
military measure conceived by the clique at Constantinople and
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prompted, first, by the fact that Armenians, with their recognized anti-
= ltirkish sentiments, constituted a military menace on the Caucasus
frontier, and second, by the vision of Pan Turanianism, which Enver,
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: Talat, Jawid and others cherished. The wholesale slaughter or
■ deportation of the leading Arabs of Damascus and in fact of all Syria