The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1867-03-13

ly the n0ble-hearteu Olu Ueneral fetrOS
Mayromichales, ,---being resident, in Office,
at Athens, after the establishment of the
monarchy of Greece, and seeing the mis-.
sionary schools there, were led to petit
ton DR.. King and the American Board
to send somebody to establish such
schools among their " countrymen," the
warlike, but "poor' Maniats. DR.. K.
communicated the request to Mr.. Hous-
ton, just at the juncture referred to, and
he undertook the somewhat romantic en-
terprise; and within some ten days after
his appointed colleague joined him, they
and their wives left the shores of Stio,
still beauteous amid its desolations, for
the dreary mountain sides. of the Laco-
nian promontory,---the undertaking ex-
citing the wonder even Of the Greeks
elsewhere, for Name is the Galilee of
Greece.
At Areopolis, the provincial capital,
they planted themselves;----with great
labor, and principally by the contributions
of friends in Virginia, got large school
building erected, where it stills stands
overlooking the sea,---drew numbers OF
the Maniat youth to their schools, Cir
culated the Scriptures in Modern Greek
to persons who could read, and were but
fairly enteringupon their work when they
were interrupted by sudden and unjust
demand of the Greek government,--at
the instigation, no doubt, of the higher
ecclesiastics, THAT they should introduce
the Catechisms of the Anatolic Church
into their schools.
There was no alternative. Mr.. Ley
burn, MIR. Houston being temporarily
absent in this country,---broke up the
station, babe farewell to Name and the
interesting boys of the schools, ---many
of whom gave him the kiss which is still,
in that country, the greeting and parting
salutation of attached male friends; and
with impaired health, returned home.
All the labor and expenditure seemed
lost. The enterprise seemed to have
wound up in defeat, disaster and doom,
especially in view of some sad final cir
cumstances, not now to be related. A
year or two before this too, the lovely
and precious Mrs. 81. had died. "But
Gods ways are not as our ways" Two
favorite and noble boys accompanied MIR.
L. to Athens, and would have clung to
him even as far as America, had their
parents leach being an only son-been
willing to part with themsso far. They
pursued their studies. One of them sub
sequently went to Leipsic, Germany, and
is now "Scholarch Of. the High School
of the Demos of Ariopolis, the very school
into which Messrs. Fl. and L. received
him, on its establishment by them, when
he was boy-a small, delicate, studious
lad. He is the person mentioned by
Mrs. X. as "Mr. Razelos." A letter
from him accompanied hers.
The other was Michales Kalopothakes,
less of book-worm," though good
scholar, and having elements of energy
and perseverance which have since so de-
veloped themselves. Correspondence
with those dear boys, across the waters,
has never ceased from that time, being
faithfully kept up by them, with an oc-
casional communication from some other
former scholar or friend and at one time
the Denote Council of Areopolis sent
Messrs. H. and L. letter expressing
their grateful remembrances of what had
been done for the people of that neglect
ed region, in respect to education, by the
missionaries. Meantime, the mind of the
last mentioned of these two boys under
!, Divine influence, as we trust, underwent
change which has since, as many know,
led him to this country, where he passed
through course of Theological study,
completed course in medicine, which he
; had begun at the Athens University, and
graduated M. D. at Philadelphia, and
after being licensed and ordained, went
back to his native country in connection
} with the United Synod's Committee Of
{ Missions, taking his position at Athens,
and establishing there a weekly family
and religious paper" The Star Of the
, East" the idea of which had been,
with him, for years, an ascendant thought
J of his heart. His wife is an American
lady, admirably fitted, we have reason to
believe, to be helper to him in the diff.
} cult work in which he is laboring, where
the door is but half open, we may say
and every movement is watched by Ar
gus-eyed governmental and ecclesiastical
power.
, The portions of a long letter just re
7 ceived from her, giving some me'account o.
visit and sojourn of this former Mania
missionary scholar, with his wife, to his
: native town and the home of his deceased
) parents, are furnished for publication, il
8 the belief that some readers will be inter
l ested in bringing the scenes of the past
8 lust referred to, into view along will
those so recently described by Mrs. K.
1t may be added that though DIR. Kal
: opothakes was compelled by the war
$ during its progress, to accept a connec
| ton with and aid from the Foreign Evan
/ gelical Society, which is still continued, >
l. his affections have ever clung to hi
, friends and the Church in the South )
: and also that the British and Foreigl
: Bible Society has made him its agent 70
/; Greece, including Gambia, Crete AM
e Macedonia.
: Does not the thought arise, in an.
e Christian heart, in view of this history
: in connection with what Mrs. K. her
: tells us of, that what was said in ancien
], days, of the light breaking first and mos
= brightly on remote and despised par
}, of the land of the Jews, may have it
r verifcation in respect to this Grecian Gal