[History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. by Rufus Anderson]@TWC D-Link bookHistory Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. CHAPTER X 23/31
Mrs.Pease returned to the United States, with her two children, in the spring of 1841.
Mr. Thompson also returned at the close of the same year.
Mr.and Mrs. Ladd were transferred to Broosa, in Turkey, where a large number of people spoke the Greek language. Dr.King and Mr.Benjamin were the only remaining members of the mission in Greece in 1842, and they were residing at Athens.
Though for some time without schools, the missionaries were usefully employed.
The former preached regularly to a congregation of from thirty to one hundred attentive hearers, with a ready command of the Greek language, and in the manner of the most effective preaching in this country.
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