[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 XXXI 21/26
The teachers were gentlemenly men, and enthusiastic in their work.
This class of teachers had generally received their education abroad, for the most part in Russia, where they could secure it without expense. They were earnest in their efforts to introduce a higher civilization, and gave the missionaries a cordial reception.
It was otherwise with the priests. The readiness of the Bulgarians to receive the New Testament in their spoken language, is deserving of special note.
An English gentleman, at one of the fairs in 1857, sold four hundred copies, which was all he had.
Several editions were printed under the direction of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and were exhausted in 1859.
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