[History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson]@TWC D-Link bookHistory Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. CHAPTER XXIV 17/28
I scarcely ever saw in America a more quiet and solemn procession.
In the Protestant burying ground, by the side of his only child, lie the remains of our dear departed brother." The Rev.George W.Dunmore and wife had joined the mission early in 1851, and proceeded to Diarbekir by way of Aintab.
Broosa was now left for a time, as Nicomedia and Adabazar had been, to the care of a native pastor, under the superintendence of the Constantinople station; and useful evangelical tours were performed by different brethren.[1] [1] See _Missionary Herald_ for 1851, pp.
24-32, 78-81, 160-162, 232-236. The law forbidding the residence of foreigners in Constantinople proper having become a dead letter, two of the brethren took up their abode near the "Seven Towers," amid an Armenian population, and a third evangelical church was formed in February, 1852, in the suburb of Has-Keuy. Among the miscellaneous labors of the brethren at the capitol, was the distribution of letters received at the mission post-office from the European mails.
Not less than fifteen hundred letters were thus disposed of in the year 1851, as the Turks had no arrangements for distributing letters that came by steamers.
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