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brilliant ability. Against the advice of 

 missionaries, he appealed to the American 

 Board to help him in Iris studies, and his 

 appeal was not granted. He then went to 

 the Baptists ; by them was educated ; by 

 them sent back to Turkey to found Bap- 

 tist churches. He quickly ran his course 

 and left the ministry ; but an element of 

 discord was introduced where there ought 

 to have been harmony. The newspapers 

 took up the matter, and controversy fol- 

 lowed. Either the man was unworthy and 

 ought not to have been approved by either 

 society, and so the Baptists were more anx- 

 ious about denomination than about the 

 kingdom; or the Congregationalists were 

 mistaken and ought to have encouraged 

 the man whom they refused. However 

 the blame may be distributed, there was 

 division, and the work was hindered. There 

 was not the unity of the spirit. 



Presbyterian missionaries had long been 

 doing superb service in Persia. Elsewhere 

 were territories untouched by the gospel. 

 Why did not the Society for the Propaga- 

 tion of the Gospel in Foreign Lands seek 

 some unoccupied field ? Instead, with ar- 

 rogance and exclusiveness, their mission- 



