He acted with decision whenever their rights were invaded.

In the repeated efforts made to remove them from the country, his reply to the formal demands of the Porte was, that he had power to protect the missionaries as American citizens, but not to remove them; and furthermore, that while papal missionaries from France and Italy were permitted to reside in Turkey, Protestant missionaries from America must also have the same privilege.
Here we may properly pause, and consider what God had wrought, not alone through the agency of the churches, but with the cooeperation of the great powers of the earth.

Twenty years before, Messrs.

Smith and Dwight did not find a single clear case of conversion in their extended travels through the Turkish empire.

How many and great the subsequent changes! First came the national charter of rights, given by the Sultan in 1840; which, among its other results, destroyed the persecuting power of the Armenian aristocracy.