This was followed by repeated attacks from a newspaper edited by one Germanos.

Pretended revelations and miracles at Naxos inflamed the zeal of the ignorant and superstitious.

Professed eye-witnesses circulated absurd stories, of girls in the school at Syra being made "Americans" by sealing them on the arm; that one of them refused to be sealed, and two horns grew out of her head; and of a boy taken into a dark room to catechize him, where he saw the devil, and was frightened out of his senses.

It was said, moreover, that the object of the missionaries was to change the religion of the country, while they hypocritically professed the contrary; though neither word nor deed of any missionary of the Board was made the pretext for any of these accusations.

By such means mobs were raised, and the schools of Syra were, for a time, broken up.