History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . seatof learning the place of their future residence and operations. They wereled to this measure, both from existing and prospective considerations. Noplace could have a fairer claim to missionary benevolence at the remnants of its exiled families were slowly returning to their prostratedwellings, destitute, not only of the means of literary and religious instruc-tion, but of the very necessaries of life ; yet clinging to them as their homes,and venturing to erect upon them temporary shelters
History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . seatof learning the place of their future residence and operations. They wereled to this measure, both from existing and prospective considerations. Noplace could have a fairer claim to missionary benevolence at the remnants of its exiled families were slowly returning to their prostratedwellings, destitute, not only of the means of literary and religious instruc-tion, but of the very necessaries of life ; yet clinging to them as their homes,and venturing to erect upon them temporary shelters from the weather,while even yet a portion of their oppressors were lingering within thewalls. The two presses, which the missionaries took with them to Greece, were,as soon as practicable, usefully employed in issuing publications adapted tothe circumstances in which they were placed; and successful endeavorswere used to collect the poor children around them, into the missionaryschools. The want of suitable accommodations for the schools, as well as73 579 PHOTESTANT EPISCOPAL for the comfort of their families,—the tardy remittances of pecuniary sup-plies,—the doubtful situation of the country, in some measure still in a rev-olutionary state,—the hesitating confidence of the people in the disinterest-edness of the offers of their new benefactors, and other untoward circum-stances, subjected the missionaries to many trials and diiSculties in theirwork. The Greeks were regarded with peculiar sympathy by the EpiscopalChurch, as descended from the same ancient and apostolic stock, having achurch constituted after what they believed to be the apostolic method, andacknowledged by them as a sister Church, except in its corruptions of thegospel. It was not therefore to preach an unknown God and an unac-knowledged gospel, to the heathen, that this mission was undertaken; butlo reclaim a wandering member of the original family of Christ; to restoretp its primitive beauty
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