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History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I.

CHAPTER VI
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CHAPTER VI.
PRELIMINARY EXPLORATIONS.
1828-1831.
Enough was known, in the year 1828, to encourage the belief, that Greece and Western Asia would soon demand a more extensive prosecution of the missionary work; but more specific information was indispensable to an intelligent enlargement.

The temporary suspension of the Syrian mission had brought the whole of the missionary force of the Board in that part of the world to Malta (except that Mr.Temple was on a visit to the United States), thus making consultation easy.

Other reasons called for a more free and extended official intercourse than could be held by letter.
Accordingly the author, then Assistant Secretary of the Board, was sent to Malta at the close of 1828, with instructions to confer with the brethren, and afterwards to visit Greece and other parts of the Levant.

The conferences at Malta occupied two months, and aided much in determining subsequent measures.

When these were over, the author, in company with the Rev.Eli Smith, afterward so favorably and widely known in the Christian world, visited the Ionian Islands, the Morea, and the Grecian Archipelago.


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