The Missionary Herald Volume 75 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...has manifested deep interest in the welfare of the Protestant church. The Turkish commissioner urges us to start schools, here and in other places, for the purpose of converting Bulgarians to Protestantism. He says it is the only hope for the Bulgarians.--Rev. L. Bond, Jr., Philippopolis, European Turkey.--At least six villages have received a fresh impulse this winter by special meetings. We have been much assisted in these meetings by a deacon of the church in Diarbekir. He is a very earnest, discreet, and spiritually-minded man, who has come into this part of the field self-moved, and who proposes to spend several months in going from place to place. He is a man of small means, I believe, but he goes wholly at his own charges. Were the spirit and zeal of this man universal in the church--and why should they not be?--the millennium would hasten on apace.--The importance of Armenia College is not seen simply or chiefly in the training given a number of young men, some of whom are of rare promise, but it is in the power which she is destined to exert in giving shape and character to the educational system of the future. Some of our Turkish visitors have expressed to me privately their dissatisfaction with their own schools, and their wish to send their boys to us, but it is doubtful whether they have the stamina to resist the tide of opposition which would be created by the fanatical Turks, who still regard us as "infidel dogs." The civil Pasha has sent fifty volumes of textbooks in Turkish, to be presented to the most faithful pupils as an incentive to still greater fidelity.--Rev. H. N. Barnum, D. D., Harpoot, Eastern Turkey.--On the 2d of January we held our ecclesiastical meeting at Oodooville, and listened to the reports of the churches for t...