"The religion of the Greeks," says Mr.
Crane, "has been denounced as contrary to the Bible, and the Scriptures eulogized and recommended to the people.

In their printed speeches we have seen no instance, in which they have called upon Mary and the saints for protection, but many in which they have called upon God to vindicate their cause." Roumelia was partially explored in 1857 by Dr.Hamlin, accompanied by the Rev.Henry Jones, Secretary of the Turkish Missions Aid Society, then visiting our missions in Turkey.

From Rodosto to Adrianople, a distance of seventy-two miles, they saw but few Bulgarian villages.

Yet what came within their observation was of special interest, "Wherever we saw flocks, we saw Bulgarian shepherds; and wherever we saw cultivation, we saw Bulgarian laborers.

They are indeed spread all over Roumelia, as laborers and shepherds, and the industry of the country is in their hands.