No books could be sold or given away in any place, without obtaining a license for that place, and strong guards were thrown around the press.

But whatever the restrictions on schools and the press, the way was open for circulating the Scriptures, and for enforcing repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

In the three years from 1834 to 1836, Dr.King sold and gratuitously distributed nearly nine thousand New Testaments in modern Greek, and eighty-seven thousand school-books and religious tracts.
The "Holy Council" now took decided ground against the version of the Old Testament from the Hebrew, declaring that the Septuagint alone was to be regarded as the canonical translation, to be read in the churches and used for religious instruction.

This did not forbid nor prevent the free circulation of the Old Testament in modern Greek among individuals for their private use.
Dark intrigues were employed to arouse the popular feeling.

A letter against "the Americans," as all missionaries were called, purporting to have been written from Syra, was printed in pamphlet form at Paris and sent to Greece, where it attracted much attention.