The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-05-12

luxe Lebanon The operations OF mission among the
HISTORIANS IN Persia at first very limited owing
me TACT that he language spoken there had 10
duced s VIZ. lg before could do anything. And our
Pressha' T. ecenty reached that field of operations.
Yet the ala by this society has not been the
interesting NJ valuable. When reached the Nestori-
| were only IN manuscript form the copies were
very rare, and in unknown tongue-the ancient
Syrae; wh, which is the spoken Language of the coun-
uy; A printed book had been seen there
only few OF the clergy could read; and many of
em could only chaunt the service OF their church which
,hey only knew what meant. We found the HISTORIANS
readily accessible; we soon formed school, we had
nothing to teach them with FIRST translated the
Lords and then reduc ed to writing in the spoLen
language and collected the clergy round us And the
sensation was great among those
when read the first line 10 them they broke ont even
INTO minoderae laughter TO hear their language read
as well as spoken We made few copies this with the
pen; These we hung up and collected a circle around it
HISTORIAN children, and taught them to read. They
were IN raptures; the first they had learned 10
read Their own language. We translated the ten
commandments and then other portions othe Scriptures:
anu III athiS we were sustained by the frauds of this
ciety These HISTORIAN children repeated to their delight
OIL relatives the precious truths they thus learned and
soon became familiar spectacle in the in Persia to
see one OF those children collect group of old peoDe
around him. and then teach him the of which he
nauhus learned Thus the handful of corn made to
snake IKE Lebanon We continued ards
ana when the pressure of 1887 almost crushed us TO the
earth we curtaed comforts went with hrcadbare
Clothes rather than stop this precious work On own
board oil missions was cramped. but the Word of Life
was sown through the agency of YOUR board Less
and when put our first tract to press il exci,ed
the wonder Of even the Mahommedans and they said
" NAT more marvellous thing even the new world
furnish For they look America as a new planet
hen they wanted print books them and one of
learn the printing business. And with this press we had
he gut OF tongues stereoty ped And like the tree
o. me 10 those ocnghted regions ierc he exhibited the
hrs tract ever printed in the HISTORIAN anguage1 And
when they saw this they shouted in their own expressive
Tongue, thanksgiving and glory to God that behold
the commencement OF printing books in our own lam
guage And there need be other limit to our printing
man prescribed by the amount of funds furnished by
this Society For the handful of you sowed in this
mountain has already shaken like Lebanon.
Mr. PERKINS then went speak of the analogy he.
tween the great conhagraon in Constantnope and the
Tract Society burning single from one of those fires
borne to adistance will kndle fire greater than the orr
gnal one So small Tract borne a distance will be.
come the centre OF great religious fame The tract of
the ,Daryman's Daughter, dropt in Nicomaria by Mr.
Gooda was the centre in time OF large Church Chris
tians unaided by human exertons The Arminian mer.
chants are valuable auxaries in this work One came TO
Consantnopc from the interior nqurng for the truth
ne went TO the European Ambassadors but could find
it there He came to the Missionaries and found it
Tracts are like the stars in the East guide the wise men
where they may find the tree of life No language can
express the momcn,ous import of the resolution have To
offer Our field the world; and Turkey and Persia are
but specimens Of the wants of the perhng natives of the
earth and specimens of the effects of the Trnc system
in every part of the world where is carried Law this
resolution bcorcyou and before the footstool of Him in
upon thousand hills; and who gave the same to YOU only
as trustees that you might it to his honor and TO his
glory
The NEsroRIAN BIsiIor, MAR YonANyAN, dressed
We have described, then rose and spoke as fol-
lows--
In this blessed city, acquainted with blessed God
and his blessed works YOU perhaps able make Bible
every hour Qanghter) but in my country writer
very WELL (hoding up much pen he makes ties.
lament in whole year tanghter In ny country few can
writethosc that ca. few permitted do we
pressed by the Mussemen into hard and per-
form manuel labor, instead OF letting write scriptures
which we love-
Some OF our people are kept employed all t;menot
he
Tract Society, but of our books in tongue And we
grim Progress and Baxter Saint estsoon be so bad no
longer. and from bad boys make good boys
II they good books writing my language reach
thousand what blessed thing be teach love Gsd to
every body.
wha dicrs this city and my country my soil perhaps
better than soil of Amcricabut plenty good books be
There few Bibles and good bookshelf us make more
Bible and good books here make New York very like IIea
venwhilc my country very much region darkness and
Few weeks ago went Middlebury away Vermont
attend meeting auXi Society Tract-they all put fifty
much. This certificate (hoding piece Of pare
attached sociey-which the instrument for sending
good books abroad to all world prize highest honor
And what this device certhcateit is preacher
scattering forth good books TO furnishing people So in
my people famish for bread of life-reach
all hands you and call for good books as in that mic
they reach all hands for good books So be-
seech you aid so supnor far
continue printing of the press to good hooks all over nv
country.
Here the Bishop slightly bowed his head with great
N,
1t should be observed that he spoke in SYRIA and
made short paragraphs similar what we have given
above and then the Rev Mr. Perkins translated the same
to the audience This was unquesonably the most inte
resting part of the ceremony the ladies' in particular
highly delighted with the novel unique appear.
ance OF the Bishop and rose up and stretched their
white beautiful necks to get sight of his revercntol
voice, his curious garments bis beard and his tout en-
sem1ie
the Eastern States remarked that the resolution offered NV
him was long one but the time admonished him brev
The printer to the HISTORIANS a lad from Illinois he
dr. P well knew him He felt almost lk G ntroducine
on that platform Western custom, and give his hand
to the Bishop (here Mr. Peck shook hands with the BIZ
shop) He could not stop to analyse the resolution He
could not even wait to define the projected operations
of the Society in its attempt TO supply every family
in the west with copy Of their standard publications
He could only give few why long contnu-
ed and liberal efforts should be in the great valley of
the west. number were there not entirely iono
rant but very destitute of the of religious nstruc
ton He might if time above cd speak statistic ally of the
want of preachers there He would however say word
in reference to the rapid increase population in that re-
gion Double the population existed there that there
was when sixteen ago he first attended the annver
sary OF that society In 1890 "a population the valley
Of the Mississippi s5sin lslO II was upwards OF
one mon--in $50, upwards Of millions-in 1890
upwards OF three millions and in 1870 upwards of six mil
lions. Amongst the foreign cmgrants during the last
ten years large proportion was from the various
ofGermany. Many of them were his immediate neigh.
bors Numbers OF them claim to be Luthcrans and he
knew a gentleman, educated at Basic seminary in Swift
zerland, and who had 1853 families under his care
He also knew Methodist missionary no labored amongst
them. Many of this class of the population were Cat6o
lies but they accessible, and would read the publ
cations OF the society, if proper Adopted
In 1870 he consented to take the of that county in
which he lived behalf Of the state, and chiefly in.
duced to do so from desire to become intimately acquan
ted with the inhabitants. The German population were
anxious to become Americans, and that account
alone worthy of the most careful attention. He found
them able to read and write their language very
generally, He often got them TO write their own names
and when asked they could read seemed much surprised
that any one would suppose that Germans couy read
The Mormons had their press, and exeting great
influence in that way there and the Universasts were NJ
work in the same way. In passing through Louisville
last YEAR on Sunday morning, he saw extraordinary
association Of signs Over store he large letters
the word grocery" which means in the west place
where liquors retaed-and above that was the an
"Univcrsalist books sold" II struck him
as exhibiting rcmarkablc degree Of congruity 0aughter
And the inhdes had their presses too Not long saw
IA penny paper in New York account OF the ceebra.
ton out West Of the birthday of that celebrated Ecle.
siasca writer as the paper said Thomas Paine naugh
ladi thcret 10,