[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 6/31
A Greek priest sent a pair of doves, and soon followed with his blessing.
It was this marriage which, in the providence of God, kept Mr.King in Greece until the close of his long and useful life. Mr.King opened a school for girls in Poros, and the chief men sent their daughters to it.
The town was noted for a modern church, called the Evangelistria, which, though built during the revolution, was the most showy edifice in Greece.
It was the annual resort of hundreds of pilgrims, chiefly the lame, sick, and lunatic, who were brought there to be cured.
It was the centre of modern Grecian superstition; as Delos, in full view of the church, had been in ancient times. After some months, the trustees of the church became alarmed for their craft, and made vigorous efforts to destroy the school.
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