Identifier: cu31924029346875 (find matches)
Title: History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Tracy, Joseph, 1798?-1850 Peck, Solomon, 1800-1874 Mudge, Enoch, 1776-1850 Cutter, William, 1801-1867 Mack, Enoch, 1806-1881
Subjects: Missions Missions
Publisher: Worcester : Spooner & Howland
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
e next year. The most interesting work was among the Armenians; but from themode in which it was carried on, mostly by the Armenians themselves, in agreat degree by private conversation, at social visits of friends and relations,by priests and laymen enlightened in various degrees, its progress cannot bedefinitely stated. Some said that the evangelical party, or evangelicalinfidels, as they were sometimes called, amounted to 800, which was doubt-less an enormous exaggeration. Five or six of the most influential of thepriests in the capital were known to be decidedly evangelical, and otherswere heard of in distant cities and villages. Except when interrupted bythe plague, the schools flourished, and Hohannes, already high, was still ris-ing in the esteem of his countrymen. Asia Minor. At all the stations, Smyrna, Scio, Broosa and Trebizond,the missions found themselves hedged in by ecclesiastical opposition. TheGreek Patriarchs encyclical letter cut them off, almost wholly, from inter-
Text Appearing After Image:
274 HISTOUY OF THE AMERICAN BOARD. course with that people, and they met some opposition from Armenian clergy,especially at Broosa. At Smyrna, the Greek eclegiastical committee suc-ceeded in breaking up eight schools, containing 600 or SOO children, and incompelling some of the teachers and pupils of the mission to enter theirservice as teachers; for such an impulse had been given to the cause of ed-ucation, that this committee was compelled to carry it on. One of thefemale teachers pressed into their service was esteemed truly pious. Thecommittee also engaged in the preparation of school books; and it wasmanifest that their own operations must, in a considerable degree, be bornealong by the current which the mission had set in motion. Mr. Adgeropened-a school for Armenian girls; but an Armenian, hostile to the mis-sion, appealed to the national pride of his countrymen, saying that it was adisgrace to be thus dependent on the charity of foreigners; and the Armeni-ans took the school i

Note About Images