Mr.Schneider was able to preach with great facility and propriety in the modern language.
In the year 1844, the author made an official visit to Athens, accompanied by Dr.Joel Hawes, and a week was spent by them in free conference with Messrs.

King and Benjamin.

The conclusion was reached, that Mr.Benjamin should seek a wider sphere of usefulness among the Armenians of Turkey.
As the result of subsequent discussions with the missionaries residing at Smyrna, Broosa, and Constantinople, it was decided to cease in great measure from labor among the Greeks; but that Dr.
King ought to remain at Athens, his position and relations being peculiar, as will appear in the subsequent history.

From that time, Dr.King was the only missionary of the Board in Greece, until his lamented death in the year 1869.1 Messrs.

Temple, Riggs, and Calhoun at Smyrna, and Messrs.