The Bulgaria mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church . in similar Servian Servia, a neighboring nation, also Slavic as to race, pro-Vassalage duced a more powerful king, who promptly entered thearena of activities, and Bulgaria once again became de-pendent. Since the Servian vassalage, which began about the middleof the fourteenth century, Bulgaria has never known complete inde-pendence. Almost immediately after the revolt from Servian rule,Turkish encroachment upon Bulgaria developed into open invasion,and by the latter part of the fourteenth century Bulgaria had lost the l
The Bulgaria mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church . in similar Servian Servia, a neighboring nation, also Slavic as to race, pro-Vassalage duced a more powerful king, who promptly entered thearena of activities, and Bulgaria once again became de-pendent. Since the Servian vassalage, which began about the middleof the fourteenth century, Bulgaria has never known complete inde-pendence. Almost immediately after the revolt from Servian rule,Turkish encroachment upon Bulgaria developed into open invasion,and by the latter part of the fourteenth century Bulgaria had lost the last, remnant of her freedom. Thereafter she learned all the sorrowsinvolved in Turkish oppression. During the long period of Turkish times Bulgaria all but lost her very existence as a nation. As far as i:)Ossible every record or monument of former independence was obliterated by the Turk. Turkish The beauty of wooded hills was turned into a treeless waste. Misrule Highways of commerce became paths of plunder. Christian churches became Moslem On a City Street Attempts to revolt served only to intensify the misei-ies of Turkishbondage. The Crimean War left Bulgaria with her woes Turk was still unconquered either by arms or by publicWoes and opinion. Conditions grew worse. Every effort of the Bui-Atrocities garians to regain their freedom was punished in true Turkishstyle. Bulgaria experienced all the atrocities later practicedupon the Armenians and now occurring in Macedonia. Her peoplelived in constant insecurity with regard to life and property. 8 There seemed to he no liope for the sulTering nation until that culmination of their troubles, uprisings and revolts Avhicli gave Russia the desired excuse for another inove toward Constanti- Freedom nople. Then, finally, at the end of the Russo-Turkish War, Secured having gained the worlds sympathy, partly through her own efforts, aided also by newspaper correspondents, but chiefly through the fearless word
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