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Title: A cyclopedia of missions : containing a comprehensive view of missionary operations throughout the world : with geographical descriptions, and accounts of the social, moral, and religious condition of the people
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Newcomb, Harvey, 1803-1863
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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tee of the Board in theyear 1829. As a preparatory step. Rev. EliSniitk and Rev. H. G. O. Ihvight were sent toexplore the field. The tour was commencedin the spring of 1830, and occupied somewhatmore than a year ; and a mass of new informa-tion was obtained, both in regard to the Ar-menians and the Nestorians, which has sincebecH of essential service in prosecuting mission-ary operations in that part of the world. Earlyin the year 1831, the Rev. W. Goodell then atMalta, was instructed to proceed to Constan-tinople with his family. They arrived on the9th of June of the same year; and shortlyafter, he called upon the Armenian p.atriarch,and sought his cooperation in establishingschools on an improved plan among the people.The patriarch received him with true orientalpoliteness, and promised to furnish gome school-masters, or priests, to learn the new system ofinstruction, so as to be able to open schools;but the promise was all he did in the matter On the 5th of June, 1832, Rev. H. G. 0
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ARMENIANS. 125 Dwight took up his permanent residence atConstantinople, witli his family, liaving beenappointed to labor among the Armenians.Kev. W. G. Schauffler joined the Constantino-ple station the last of July of the same year,his labors being confined chiefly to the Jews. The number of Armenian visitors at themission gradually increased ; and early in theyear 1833, Hohanues Sahakyau, a pupil in theschool of Peshtimaljian, became a deeply inte-rested inquirer, and an earnest student of theScriptures, in which he found sympathy andaid from his l>eIoved preceptor. The follow-ing year he found a friend to whom he com-municated his views, and who, after someopposition, embraced them. Mr. Sahakyansoon became a most efficient instrument inpromoting the truth, as he has continued to beup to the present time ; and never, from thatmoment, has the mission been without the mostsatisfactory evidence of the special presenceof the Holy Spirit among the Armenian peo-ple. On the 18th of July,

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