[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 28/31
Schneider and Ladd at Broosa, had made the Greek language their principal medium of intercourse with the people.
Mr.Riggs having a rare aptitude for acquiring languages, had begun to edit works in the Bulgarian, Armenian, and Turkish languages. 1 During nearly the whole of Dr.King's life in Athens, Dr.Hill, an American Episcopal missionary, was resident there. The American Baptist Missionary Union placed two missionaries at Patras, on the Gulf of Corinth, in 1838.
That station was discontinued in 1845, when Mr.Buel removed to the Piraeus, the port of Athens, where he labored, in the most friendly relations with Dr. King, until 1855 or 1856, when the unsatisfactory results of the mission led to its discontinuance. A like result had been practically reached by both the London and Church Missionary Societies of England.
A deplorable change had come over the Greeks, both in Greece and Turkey, since the freedom of Greece from Turkish rule; and money, time, and labor could be more profitably expended on other equally needy populations in that part of the world.
The old ambition for the recovery of Constantinople and the restoration of the Eastern Empire, had been quickened into life; and the unity of the Greek Church as a means to this end, was craftily kept before the minds of the people by Russian agency, and had a wonderful influence, especially among the higher classes.
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