The Litchfield County post., 1827-03-22
From the Boston Recorder.

The last Monthly Concert was one of the most interesting ever held m Boston, The intelligence communicated was alto eether the most important, especially when considered in its bearings up the future nrossect of Missions, of any ever receIVed bv the Board at one time. It came too late to appear in our last Missionary Her aid. And though we usually deem it lm- proper to anticipate that official organ oi the Board, in the publication ot mlssIona- ry intelligence which may be in our power; vet we feel it would now he wrong to with hold that. which would cause many thanks givings to God, and convey to the friends of missions so signal an evidence of the f- nal triumphs of the truth. We shall barely state few leading facts, necessari- ly onliting many interesting particulars. In presenting this brief notice of what God has wrought, we shall not satisfy the reader but only excite a stronger desire to see the details in the April Herald. The intelligence given is all from the I'Gt- est;ne Mission. The ordinary concerns of the missions, and further particulars of the hopeful converts of whom we have before heard, would have been unusually anima- ting. But were permitted to hear of other events, of character quite unexpected, which have come to pass, in the East in these days.
 The intelligence to which we allude, is contained in letter from MT. Goodell, at Beyroot, dated Sept. 29th and Oct. 5th, 1926. It appears that MT. King, when he set out on his return to this country, left FarsWeN Letter to the people of Syria. This contained testimony to the great truths of the gospel. A translation of this letter was sent to Constantinople, with CO., pious marginal references to scripture proofs prepared by MT. Goodell. This letter excited great commotiQn among the Armenians, 100000 of whom resided in that city and neighborhood. A general meeting of the monks, priests and patri- archs of that church was held; attended also by the Greek patriarch of Constanti- nople and the Grek patriarch of Jerusa- lem, who happened to be then in the city. MT. Kings letter was read, and discussed at length in that meeting. The long neg lected Bible was produced in the conclave, and the reference consulted. The conse- quence was, a division i'll the assembly, and warm discussion of the practices of their own church. But eventually several resolutions were passed ,which clearly show that strong conviction of the truth had seiz- ed on the minds of major part: and that light has dawned, even upon the ecclesi- astics of the Armenian Church, which must, ere long, subvert the fabric of their su- perstition. The substance of the resolu- tions is, that the patriarch should dismiss the monks and priests from the convent at Jerusalem, & appoint few persons in their places who have been married but are widoweEs that no new monks ol priests be appointed for twenty-five years that no women or boys go on pilgrimage to Jerusalem that men that go should not be permitted to renal there more than four days; and that they no longet witness the pretended miracle of the holy fire"
 We make no cement; aware that facts, in case like this. need but an explicit statement to bring them with power to the pious heart. We would barely remark, that these beloved missionaries could not have anticipated a result like this, in less than seven years from their leaving their native shores, and within three years from the location of the mission in Syria. MT. King too, when writing that favorite letter, did not imagine in what an assembly it would speak, or what couvulsion it would occasion in the superstitions of a corrupt church, Prehaps he has yet to learn what the Lord has done by his feeble instrumen- tality. By the last accounts he was in France and though success speedily fol- lowed his parting effort in the Holy Land, possibly he will first hear of that success on arriving here among his own people. The full extent of the benefit he will learn, only when the light of eternity shall dis close it.
 From the New-Yo ork Observer.
 Latest and interesting from Beyroot.
 Through the kindness of the gentleman to whom it was addressed, we are enabled to lay before our readers the following ve- ry interesting letter from Beyroot, dated Oct. z, 1925; more than two months la ter than the most recent intelligence be- fore received from the mission. It will be seen that Asaad Shidiak, whose Declare ton may be found on our first page, was still alive as was supposed, but in prison, where he had been confined and i'll treated