History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . cities. It has about 50,000 in-habitants. Mr. Schneider had previously visited the place, with , engaged a house, and left Hohannes to make arrangements for aschool. Notwithstanding the oppodition which some of the clergy had ex-cited during his absence, the school was commenced with 70 pupils; andin December another was opened at Demir Tash, a Greek village about sixmiles distant. In November, Mr. Johnson visited Trebizond, where Xenophon, in hisfamous retreat with the ten thousand first came
History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . cities. It has about 50,000 in-habitants. Mr. Schneider had previously visited the place, with , engaged a house, and left Hohannes to make arrangements for aschool. Notwithstanding the oppodition which some of the clergy had ex-cited during his absence, the school was commenced with 70 pupils; andin December another was opened at Demir Tash, a Greek village about sixmiles distant. In November, Mr. Johnson visited Trebizond, where Xenophon, in hisfamous retreat with the ten thousand first came to the sea, and found aGreek population, which had been there ever since the Argonautic expedi-tion, before the Trojan war. Here, after the overthrow of Constantinopleby the Crusaders, a branch of the imperial family reigned for 250 years;and from Kalomeros, a member of that family who emigrated to Italy, dis-daining submission to the Turks, the family of Buonaparte is said to be de-scended. Mr. Johnson engaged a house, and returned to Constantinople. 252 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN Mount Olympiu and Btooaa. Mr. Perkins, missionary to the Nestorians of Persia, with his wife, leftConstantinople in May, and passing by Trebizond and Erzroom, and meet-ing some unpleasant detention from the Kussian authorities, by the kind aidof the British Ambassador to Persia, Sir John Campbell, reached Tabreez -in August. In October he visited Ooroomiah, the scene of his future labors,and engaged Mar Yohanna, bishop of Galavan, as his teacher in saw Mar Elias, of Mosul, one of the rival Patriarchs of the Nestorians,..who was delighted with the Syriac spelling book and Scriptures, and withthe prospect of printing in the language of the Nestorians, and thanked Godfor the commencement of the mission. After a cordial reception from allparties, he returned, with the bishop and a priest, to study the Syriac atTabreez. The Eev. John B. Adger, whose arrival at Smyrna has been mentioned,the
Size: 1857px × 1346px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840, booksubjectmissions, bookyear184
