GEEEK CHURCH. 



GREEN, L. W. 



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For these causes : our humility and the holy synod 

 of most holy metropolitans, our brothers and coadju- 

 tors in the Holy Ghost, having been informed, espe- 

 cially by your letter, of the divine zeal which inflames 

 you for the desired union of the churches, are filled 

 with spiritual joy ; we crown your holy work with the 

 most just praises, we pour forth for you the most ardent 

 prayers, and we bestow on you with our whole heart, 

 on you and on your fellow laborers, our fullest bene- 

 diction, patriarchal and synodal. And as we have seen 

 with joy, in the letter of your piety, one western and 

 one eastern priest united in the same love for the truth, 

 joining their names as brethren, so may we, one day, 

 by the grace of that God, whose judgment and mercies 

 are infinite, behold the sister Churches of East and 

 West embracing each other with sincerity and truth 

 in the unity of the Spirit, in the bond of peace, to the 

 end that we may be one body, and only one, in Jesus 

 Christ, to the glory of the Father, the Son, and the 

 Holy Ghost, the most Holy and Undivided Trinity. 



His grace and benediction be with you. 



INDICIUM the bth, August 23d, 1862. 



The Archbishop of Constantinople, who blesseth you in 



Jesus Christ. 

 Paisius, Metropolitan of Csesarea, who blesseth you in 



Jesus Christ. 



Paisius, of Enhesus, who blesseth you in Jesus Christ. 

 Methodius, Vicar-General of Carpathos, who blesseth 



you in Jesus Christ. 

 Stephen, Metropolitan of Larissa, who blesseth you 



in Jesus Christ. 



Sophronines of Arta, who blesseth you in Jesus Christ. 

 Chrysanthus of Smyrna, 

 Meletius of Mitylene, 

 Dprotheus of Demetrias, , 

 Dionysius of Melenia, 

 Meletius of Rhascoprescene, 

 Anthemus of Belgrade, 



pens of Grebenna, 



The Church of Russia is laboring, with con- 

 siderable success, for the propagation of Chris- 

 tianity in the vast dominions of Russia, in East- 

 ern Asia, and Northwestern America. The most 

 efficient of the Russian missionaries is Priest 

 Benjamin, who commenced laboring in 1823 on 

 the peninsula of Alaska, in Russian America. 

 His main efforts at first were for the natives of 

 the Aleutian islands. He established himself, 

 at length, upon one of them (Unalaska), learn- 

 ed their language, translated for them part of 

 the Scriptures and several religious books, and 

 taught them to read and write. From 1830 on- 

 ward these islands rapidly turned from heath- 

 enism to Christianity, and to this day remain 

 among the most prosperous of the Russian mis- 

 sions. Priest Benjamin, after a time, removed 

 to New Archangel, on the island of Sitka, 

 southeast of the Aleutian islands, and near the 

 part of Russian America, which runs down the 

 side of British America. From this point he 

 labored especially for the tribes on the south- 

 ern extremity of Russian. America. He met at 

 first with but little success ; but other mission- 

 aries, having translated the Gospel of Matthew 

 and some religious books for the natives, gath- 

 ered more fruit. In 1845, one missionary, Sitz- 

 iazen, baptized 530 of one tribe, the Kolustres. 

 The whole number of converts among them up 

 to 1860, was estimated at 4,700. But on the 

 whole, this mission is not regarded as success- 

 ful. Greater success attended the work on 

 Cook's Sound, further north and west, among 



the tribe of the Kenaiz. The missionary, Nez- 

 vetoff, labored with success among tribes on 

 the rivers Kvickpack, Kooskovim, and Nush- 

 ayack, near Behring's Straits. The extreme 

 northern tribes of Russian America have mani- 

 fested a strong tendency toward Christianity, 

 and as no missionary has yet penetrated those 

 wilds, small bands of them often come to 

 the southern coast for baptism. In all these 

 colonies of Russian America, including the 

 Aleutian islands, there were, in 1860, seven 

 parish churches and 35 chapels, served by 27 

 priests. Priest Benjamin, after laboring for 

 years in Russian America, was made Arch- 

 bishop of Kamschatka and Superintendent of 

 the Polar Churches, with the title " Innocent 

 I." His diocese is one of the largest in the 

 world, but he still, though very aged, visits all 

 parts of it. Dr. Stanley, in his "Eastern 

 Church," says : "Innocent, Archbishop of 

 Kamschatka, is to the Russian Church, as the 

 Bishop of New Zealand is to our own, an ex- 

 ample of the revived missionary spirit in their 

 vast Colonial Empire. Not in canoes or steam- 

 ers, but in reindeer sledges he traverses to and 

 fro the long chain of pagan islands which unite 

 the northern frontiers of the Asiatic and Amer- 

 ican continents, and has, it is said, brought 

 many to the Christian faith." 



The archbishop is surrounded by a number 

 of assistants, among whom some natives have 

 won distinction. By their labors the Kam- 

 schatkadales were almost wholly christianized 

 as early as 1847. Giving up nomadic life, they 

 have settled in small villages, and 3,000 were 

 attending the ten churches erected for them in 

 different parts of the peninsula. 



The tribe of Lamutes, on the gulf of Ochotsk, 

 has also been almost wholly christianized. 

 They have three chapels in the towns of Ochotsk 

 and Ajan. Among the people of the Amoor 

 country, a mission has been established, which 

 bids fair to extends its operations into China. 



The Christianization of Northern Asia is 

 making rapid progress, and paganism is fast 

 disappearing. Nearly all the tribes are furnish- 

 ing their contingent to the native priesthood, 

 for the training of which a seminary has been 

 established at Jakutsk. 



GREEN, REV. L. W., D. D., an American 

 Presbyterian clergyman, and at the time of his 

 death president of Centre College, Danville, 

 Ivy., born about 1802, died at Danville, Ky., 

 May 26th, 1863. He was educated at Transyl- 

 vania University, Lexington, Ky., and entered 

 the ministry in the Presbyterian Church about 

 1825. He was early appointed a professor in 

 Centre College, and after many years' service in 

 that capacity was called to professorships suc- 

 cessively in Hanover and Alleghany Theologi- 

 cal Seminaries, to the presidency of Washing- 

 ton College, Virginia, to that of his alma mater, 

 Transylvania University ; and in 1857, on the 

 death of Dr. Young, to the same position in 

 Centre College. In the controversy engendered 

 by the outspoken loyalty of Rev. Dr. Breckin- 



