The war of the Greek revolution began in the following spring, and Mr.Fisk's journal makes frequent mention of cruel atrocities committed by the Turks on their opponents in the streets of Smyrna.

Prudence required him to live much in retirement.
In a few short excursions, however, he distributed Bibles, Testaments, and tracts; and, during a part of the year, he supplied the place of British chaplain.
Mr.Parsons arrived at Jerusalem on the 17th of February, 1821, and was the first Protestant missionary ever resident there, with the intention of making it a permanent field of labor.

His first object was to reach the multitude of pilgrims then about to congregate in the Holy City.

He took with him the Scriptures in nine languages, and four or five thousand religious tracts.

He had letters to Procopius, an assistant of the Greek Patriarch of Jerusalem, president of the Greek monasteries, and agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society.