Consequently the many books and tracts in Hebrew-Spanish, which were published by the English missionaries in Smyrna, were comparatively useless at Salonica, because of the difficulty of understanding them.

These Jews therefore needed missionary schools.
The excessive self-righteousness of this people, as described by Mr.
Dodd, disclosed a serious obstacle to missionary success among them.
"Two thousand years of punishment," he says, "have not destroyed the feeling, that they are the beloved of heaven.

They pray, morning, noon, and night, and that too in the holy language.

They always ask a blessing on their food.

They neither eat nor touch any unclean thing.