New England in the life of the world; a record of adventure and achievement . raduate of Amherst College andAndover Seminary, scored the unprecedented recordof sixty-eight years in Turkey with only one visit tothe United States. He kept at work until the day ofhis death at the advanced age of ninety years. Formore than forty years he preached in one of theeighteen dialects he knew. His monumental work wasthe giving of the Bible to four nations in their ownlanguage—Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece and Armenia—besides Bible dictionaries, commentaries and an un-recorded number of books, hymns and general
New England in the life of the world; a record of adventure and achievement . raduate of Amherst College andAndover Seminary, scored the unprecedented recordof sixty-eight years in Turkey with only one visit tothe United States. He kept at work until the day ofhis death at the advanced age of ninety years. Formore than forty years he preached in one of theeighteen dialects he knew. His monumental work wasthe giving of the Bible to four nations in their ownlanguage—Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece and Armenia—besides Bible dictionaries, commentaries and an un-recorded number of books, hymns and general publi-cations. You turn another page in the annals of New Eng-land seed-sowing in the Near East and come upon thename of Cyrus Hamlin, the most versatile man of thatearly group. Born in 1811 at Waterford, Me., takinghis preparatory course at Brighton (Me.) Academy,toiling from 5 a. m. until 10 p. m,, breakfasting onmathematics, dining on dead languages and suppingon sciences, being able to recite from memory the firstbook of the ^neid—what might not such a mind have. CYRUS HAMLIXBorn in Waterford, Me., January o, ISll ZpOUNDKH and first president of Eobert College on the Bosphorus,?L master of so many trades and professions that the Turks ealled himthe Yankee Satan. Prominent in the Crimean War as baker of breadfor the English Government, from the profits of whieh he built thirteenehnrehes in the Turkish Empire. NEW ENGLAND AND THE NEAR EAST 263 accomplished in the field of pure scholarship, had henot when a student at Bowdoin come under the influ-ence of Munson and Lyman—New England men, bythe way—home on a furlough from the island ofSumatra in the Pacific, where they afterwards becamemartyrs 1 They helped to send young Hamlin overseasto found the seminary for boys at Bebek, and to be-come one of the most potent personalities in the Turk-ish Empire. He was a match for the Sultan and hiscourtiers at their own game, and so clever and per-sistent in the pushing of his
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