Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-28

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Poor Progress In Converting the Heathen.
DR.. King the first American missionary to
Greece, whose labors in converting the
heather Greeks have long elected the SYM
pathy and interest Of Christian people in this
country, was sent there by the American
Board in 1928, and has been supported there
by the American people ever since. In 1852
he Aindulgcd in style Of preaching against
the established church. which the Govern
rnent thought infringed on good ORDER he
was brought before the court found guilty OF
4 proselytism and sentenced to exile. The
King, however, pardoned him after few
DAYS. Recently some fresh troubles Of the
Doctor have been made the occasion OF fresh
- appeals to the material sympathy of the
American public, and that satanically pous
"a ~ paper the Journal of Commerce, the organ oil
religious cant and political ruffianism, parades
him as a martyr. This has brought out
Greek in reply, who gives some novel state
81 ments of the Reverend Doctors missionary
G work. aa e.i.. o. l.si.
(. ..a'.i He says Dr. King some years ago bought
l.. r.. e. ,,rI,;o boffar ri
..,r became necessary to the city of Athens for
public purposes The municipality offered to
b0a Indemnify him, but he refused, and the mat
ter thus stood for some years. when 10 1853,
90 by the absence of the American Consul Dr.
King became Acting Consul. Then, as
VI, United States Consul, he made his claim for
$4,000 indemnity, and the United States
Government seeonding it, it was paid to the
Doctor in cash. The writer thinks that the
Doctor has little reason to complain Of q
-1 2 country where investments pay at that rate.
The Government of Greece having remon-
$40 strate6 to that of the United States against
the conduct of DR.. King, he was superseded
in his Consulship, and this constitutes his
recent martyrdom; he being the martyr, but
the Christian public of America being re-
quired to do the bleeding. E
.,.gJ Perhaps it is proper forthe Doctorto ''spoir
u the heather; there are excellent precedent
for il, and they seem to have deserved it by
rejecting his spiritual ministrations; but thu
writer makes further charges, of far mort
serious nature, which show that the Doctor
has not only failed to convert the heather
but has actually added to their number. He
says:
q d I, a. H.. n. - g.,
g this long time? The people never trusted
him, to send to his school their children. He
has not made during thirty years, singl'
Greek convert; and what is still more curious
he has not succeeded in converting his wife
who is a Greek lady"
q The American Board didnot of course sen,
DR.. King to Greece, at such great cost, II
make proselytes on non-essential doctrines
but he was sent from conviction that tn
q, Greeks were destitute of any religion tina
would save them from perdition. But asid
from the fact that the Greeks could hardl
be expected to be aroused by DR.. King
preaching to the awful danger of their con
dition, when he was SO ready to ally himse
I,5with it. DIR. King could not have expecte
otherwise than that his children would natuI
ally follow the faith of their mother; and thu
2 twhile he has failed TO redeem single heathe
soul from perdition, he has been creatin
more for the same horrible end. The neces
r.. sity for DR.. Kings mission being conceded
the conclusion is inevitable that this gres
drain upon the missionary fund for thirt,
two years, has only resulted in increasing Il
number of heathen souls for the everlastn
burning.
y There is, however, some relief to this 81
picture of misdirected missionary effort. I'll
gsame writer says the Rev. John Fl. Hill,
t'tNew York went to Greece few years aft
DrqKing, taking his wife with him, being tn
prepared to hold his own in the contest, if
made no gains from the enemy.
"There both began with the utmost re
the instruction of the youth, and continu
their praiseworthy work up to the prese
day, For twenty-five years Mr.. and MI
Hill conducted the best school of Athens {
young ladies-frequented by four hundr
girls, seven-eighths of whom are daughte
of the people, receiving their instructiC
gratis"
AS to religious liberation in Greece Il
Il writer says
There exist in Athens besides the Protes
ant Episcopal Church, two Catholic Church,
aJewishs Synagogue, and Turkish Mosqu
in Chaleis lIsland of Euboea,) where maj
Turks remained since the Greek revolutio
holding still their property which they HI
before 1921"
DemOrallzinE Subject, Not Suitable r
al ~ Family Reading. at
1t is possible that the Benicia Boy, VI
never won fight may beat Sayers, who b
been conqueror in dozen hard-fought CO
tests, and was never defeated but once; b
that would not prove that the proper pers
to challenge the champion of England is
man, Yho was beaten the only time he ey
appeared in the ring, and never yet display
any great pugilistic qualities nor will I
match be an international one, whatever I
result.