Originally published: Minneapolis, Minn. : N.G. Malech, 1910.

General information about the Sons of Men -- The ancient kingdom of Babylon -- The Assyrian kingdom -- The Aramaic language -- The Arameans, Chaldeans, Assyrians and Syrians are one nation and their language is one -- The art of writing, or concerning the Aramaic alphabet -- The religion of the Children of Men before Christ came into the world -- The doctrine of Addai -- Aramaic Bible versions in the first century -- Missions in the second century -- The history of Edessa -- The Sassanian Empire of Persia -- The third and fourth centuries -- The war between Rome and Persia -- Early persecutions -- The biography and works of Mar Aphrem, the Syrian -- The Eastern Syrian Church during the fifth century -- Behram V. Surnamed "Gor" or Wildass -- Babaia or Babuaeus, patriarch, 457-484 A.D. -- The school of Nisibis and other schools -- The sixth century -- Jacob of Serugh -- Persecution of the Christians by King Kesro II. Parvis -- The eighth century of the Syrian Church -- The ninth century -- The tenth century -- The eleventh and twelfth centuries -- The thirteenth century -- The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- The sixteenth century -- The seventeenth-nineteenth century -- The American foreign mission among the Syrians of Persia -- The Syrian Church at the present time -- The activity of the Lutheran Churches in and around Urmia.