[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 XXX 1/33
CHAPTER XXX. THIRTY YEARS AMONG THE JEWS. 1826-1856. The first missionary sent by the Board to the Jews in the Levant, was the Rev.Josiah Brewer, who, while connected with the Board, was supported by the "Female Society of Boston and Vicinity for promoting Christianity among the Jews." Sailing from Boston, September 16, 1826, he proceeded to Constantinople by way of Malta and Smyrna, expecting there to find every facility for learning the Hebrew-Spanish language, spoken by the Spanish Jews.
But disturbances, growing partly out of the Greek revolution, so hindered his gaining access to the Jews, that he deemed it his duty to turn to some more open field of missionary labor. After the retirement of Mr.Brewer, the ladies assumed the support of the Rev.William G.Schauffler who became his successor.
He was a native of Stuttgart in Germany, but early removed, with his parents, to a German colony near Odessa.
He came to this country through the agency of the Rev.Jonas King, and spent several years at the Theological Seminary in Andover, to prepare himself for a mission to the East.
He was ordained at Boston in November, 1831, and embarked soon after, going by way of Paris, where he attended the lectures on the oriental languages and literature, for which that city was then distinguished.
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