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tions and recollections of his stay there twenty years before, but of his early friends "some were scattered, some were dead." Of those remaining, the Duke de Bro glie and the Countess of St. Aulaire were out of town. Mr. Adolphe Monod, however, and Pastor Grandpierre, received him with open arms, and at a prayer meeting held at the house of the former, Dr. King soon found himself at home, and before long other of his friends returning gave him the warm greeting always so much prized by the stranger. On his return through Switzerland Dr. King notcs, with peculiar interest, interviews held with the Count and Countess de Gasparin, with the sentiments Of whose books he had in general fully sympathized. The close tie which laborers in the mission field, both East and West, feel for each other, was shown by the pains which Dr. King took to visit the little Swiss village of Orbes, from which Madame Feller had gone to her work at Grande Ligne, Canada. At Geneva Dr. King met Mrs. Dr. Baird, Col. Tronchin, and Drs. Malan and Gaussen. The widow of his friend, the Baron De Stael, was also there, and sent for him to come to her borne at Coppet. Dr. King writes that "she said that the ten months of her union with the baron were months of unmingled pleasure, without a cloud, and when he was taken away she would not be comforted Then her child, two years after, was taken away, then her sister-in-law, the Duchess de Broglie, but now she feels that all is well." Of her home, Dr. King writes : " It is a fit place for study, meditation and prayer. Here Madame Dc Stael wrote in former times when the world
was full of noise, and revolution and terror ; here her daughter, the Duchess de Broglie, meditated sublimer themes, and spoke of things far more interesting than philosophy and politics. It seems as if some age long gone by had returned, as if the dial had turned back a hundred years; and how soon I too shall go the way of all the earth and be silent as those whose shades now pass before me." While in Geneva, Dr. King took the opportunity of buying the watch he afterwards carried, with money given him for the purpose by l'Admiral Count Verhuell. In 1847, during his time of persecution, Dr. King was urged, indeed almost commanded by the king, and some personal friends, as has before been stated, to leave Athens for a while, and he decided to go first into Ger many and Switzerland. At a parting service held at Mr. Buel's, at the Piraeus, Dr. King was much comforted by means of a prayer offered by Miss Waldo, as also by singing with his friends the hymn, " Jesus, I my cross have taken." Landing at Patmos, some men in a restau rant were overheard saying, " There is King. Let us stone him." Another said, " He has doubtless been sent here to be tried, and we shall then have the opportunity." To this an old man replied, " It is better to take a knife and go to his door, and watch him as he comes out some evening." At Corfu, Lord Seaton received Dr. King very kindly, inviting him to breakfast at his palace. Passing through Venice and Vicenza by car, Dr. King came to Trent, famous for its council; and in the record-book, kept there for travellers, he inscribed the following
words, as a sort of protest against the errors once en dorsed there : "' The counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.' Jonas King, Aug. 12, 1847." Through the " beautiful country " of Bulgaria, yet " de filed by idols set up for worship by the sides of the road," our refugee went on to Innspruck, crossing the Alps, missing his baggage, comforted as a stranger in a hotel by overhearing some unknown fellow-traveller at prayer, who, while enjoying communion with his Saviour, knew not he was being used as a means of blessing to another. At Constance was to be seen a statue of Abraham, much defaced, which the people took for one of Huss, or per haps Jerome of Prague. Zurich, the home of Zwingle, next claimed attention. Here Dr. King called on Prof. Lange, since so well known, and whom he speaks of as "friendly to missions." All this change of scene and this Christian intercourse was the very medicine needed by Dr. King. At Berne he attended one or more sessions of the Diet, and tells of the quaint customs as to dress, handed down from olden time. Lauzanne and Geneva he was glad to revisit, finding there friends old and new—Baptist Noel, Merle d'Aubigne, Prof. Tholuck, and others. Conversation turned often upon the Evan gelical Christian Alliance, formed the year before at London. Dr. King was made at home at the house of Mr. Rivier, one of whose daughters was Madame G. de Felice. Dr. King next spent a part of his exile in Italy. Sir Culling Eardley had given him a letter of intro duction to the Count Pietro Guicciardini at Florence, who 334 YON, S KING. in a private conversation said that he was convinced of the errors of his church, and that this change came from reading some passages of Scripture. He said also, that a law still existed condemning to the galleys a man guilty of heresy, though he doubted whether it would now be put in execution. At St. Peter's Dr. King was struck with the sugges tive arrangement by which the throne of the Pope was supported by statues of St. Chrysostom on the right and St. Athanasius on the left, Greek saints, and St. Ambrose and St. Augustine, Latin Saints. He was glad to know of this from personal observation, because he could now appeal with more effect to certain portions of the works of these fathers against the worship of the Virgin Mary, and in regard to the importance of reading the Sacred Scriptures. Of all the objects he saw at Rome, the Coliseum affected him the most. There multitudes of Christians had formerly been put to death. As he walked over the arena he could almost hear the cry, " How long, O Lord, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth." Descriptions are given by Dr. King of Pompeii, Her culaneum, of Virgil's tomb, &c., with all the delicate appreciation of a Christian scholar ; but all through Italy it was trying to see the grand facts of our religion scan dalized by puerile representations. Thus, however, was he still better prepared to testify against such perversions. At Messina, Sicily, he found the Cyclops still existed in the form of police officers, who, with four eyes instead of one, looked at everything and suspected everything HOURS AND TRAVELS. 335 as much as if he had come from the moon. Visiting the Cathedral there, he had a ladder brought so as to read for himself a letter set high up above the altar, purporting to be written to the city by the Virgin Mary, daughter of James. Dr. King next spent a few weeks at Malta. Here he was able to watch more closely the course of events at home, and was soon gladdened by a visit from his wife and son. The welcome given to a new mission ary, Mr. Johnson, brought.to mind his own arrival there twenty-six years before. His present stay at Malta, while waiting, "like a bird on a bush, with one wing up and ready to fly at any moment back to Athens," was not ill spent. The " Farewell Letter" was revised, and editions of it put through the press, and into circulation; and other missionary work was accomplished, especial efforts being made to give the Gospel to Italy, Even at this time a call came for three thousand Italian Bibles. Copies of the "Farewell Letter" were sent into Tuscany, and found their way to Constantinople, and into Egypt. Has the sowing of such seed no relation to the progress of liberty and Protestantism, as now seen in the kingdom of Italy ? Dr. King made no further journey in Europe until 1857, when the desires of his heart were indeed fulfilled, for he was then present at the meeting of the Evangeli cal Alliance, held that year at Berlin. A more impressive scene he never witnessed, than when English and Ameri can Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists and Presbyte rians, 'Congregationalists, French, Swiss, Spanish and Germans, all, as one in Christ, communed with each other
around His one table. The Dean of Canterbury and Dr. Wm. Patton of New York took direction of the service. Next comes mention of Bishop Simpson, beloved in all all the churches, who delivered, says Dr. King, " one of the most impressive discourses I ever heard. It was ad mirable, and I felt how much I had lost in personal enjoy ment by being absent so long from my native country." Friday, September i r, the members of the Alliance, as a nucleus, and others, in all about nine hundred per sons, went by a special train, ordered by the king, to visit him at Potsdam. " On arriving at the palace we found a suite of splendid rooms, with tables covered with re freshments, of which all partook. We walked through several of the rooms, which were open, and among them was the one that Voltaire occupied in the time of Fred erick the Great, and who said that twelve foolish men had invented Christianity, and that one man would de stroy it. Here the king, a successor of Frederick, receiv ed us in the kindest manner, using all his influence to promote Christianity and Christian union. At about five P. M. the king and queen and suite arrived, and received us in front of the palace, in companies, according to our respective nations. "The first he met, on coming out of the palace, was the German Committee, a member of which addressed a few words to the king, saying that we had come, an army, but not with swords to fight, or with earthly armor, but to pray for his majesty, etc. The'king replied that he hoped the Spirit would be poured out upon us, as on the day of Pentecost. He then came to the Americans, some THE E VANGLICAL ALLIANCE. 337 forty in number, at the head of whom was our worthy minister, Governor Wright, to whom the king gave his hand in the most cordial manner, and also to Dr. Baird, and said, ` Oh, I am so glad to sec you.' I was then pre sented, and then Dr. Dwight, Bishop Simpson, and oth ers. Dr. Dwight addressed a few words to his majesty, expressing his gratitude for what the Prussian ambassa dor had done at Constantinople in aiding the missiona ries, and mentioned a school at Smyrna in which, Dr. Dwight told me, the king took a particular interest. The king seemed affected even to tears. He then went to the English, at the head of whom stood Sir Culling Eard ley, who addressed him, and then introduced several of his distinguished countrymen. The delegates from other nations were presented also. The king spent with us, I should think, an hour and a half. The queen was pres ent all the time with her maids of honor, and I and sev eral others were presented to her, and she received us with the greatest simplicity. As the king and queen were retiring into the palace, the multitude who had been presented sang a hymn, and shouts of joy, ' Long live the king,' in various languages, were heard from the whole assembly, like the roaring of the waves of the sea. We were then, by the same train that brought us, con veyed to Berlin, where we arrived about eight or nine in the evening. All hearts were glad, and all praised God for having inclined the heart of the king thus to favor the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance." For nine days the meetings continued. "The king attended. three or four times, and sat each time for an Jonas King. 29 J38 ,OONAS KING. hour and a half or two hours, and gave the strictest atten tion. On the eighth day, Dr. Dwight was called upon to speak, and I followed. The king was present, and per haps four thousand people. As I turned to go away, Dr. Krtimmacher took me by the hand most cordially, and so did Dr. Barth and others." Dr. King was one of a committee sent the next day to wait on the Emperor Alexander of Russia, and present a certain document, which had been drawn up in English, French, and German, to solicit his interposition in favor of the distribution of the Bible in his dominions in the Russ language. The emperor had been reviewing about forty thousand troops,. and was about to leave Berlin ; but the king of Prussia, notwithstanding his extra fatigue, received the deputation, and expressed himself as much pleased with the addresses, one of which was made by Dr, King. An occasion of peculiar interest, as foreshadowing that true Christian union of which the grand gathering in New York in 1873 was a glorious exemplification, was a dinner given by Sir Culling Eardly at his hotel, to which Dr. and Mrs. King and daughter were invited. After speeches made in various languages, Rev. Mr. Alford, Dean of Canterbury, closed with an extemporaneous prayer, "most beautifully appropriate in every respect." Going on to Paris, Dr. King met there his old friend Sidney E. Morse and M. de Tassy. He made at this time a very short stay in Paris, returning by as direct a route as possible to his home and work at Athens.
CHAPTER X XII. LAST VISIT TO AMERICA. Many Changes—Warm Welcomes—Dr. W. A. Hallock—Hawley and Plainfield, Mass.—Old Elm-tree—Chicago—Rochester Clifton Springs—New Haven—Meeting with Dr. Goodell at Elizabeth, N. J. DR. KING remained at his post until 1864, when, his health being much impaired, he came, in July, with his wife, to the United States, remaining about three years. While received everywhere with warm and respectful attention, he could yet realize with Wordsworth, that there are some advantages connected with "Yarrow un visited." Dr. Hallock had given him warning of many changes, especially in his native place. But Dr. King's daughters, who were in this country, vied with each other in securing his presence and their mother's at their several homes. A few of his old friends still survived. His meeting at Elizabeth, N. J., with S. V. S. Wilder, now in his eighty-fourth year, was indeed one of peculiar interest. As Dr. King, his own head now touched with silver, en tered the room, he said, " I once had a friend ; when I asked him, ' What shall I do ?' he said to me, ' Go.' `But what will become of my aged father and mother in Amer ica ?' "I will be a son to them.' ' Then,' said I, ' I will go up to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall
befall me there.' " The whole scene was in keeping with the touch of romance that had ever attended intercourse between these two honored servants of our Lord ; and when, the following year, the older friend was called to his home above, no one took more interest than Dr. King in doing honor to his memory, aiding by most valuable contributions in preparing the Records published by the American Tract Society concerning him. Long before, in 1336, Dr. King, on occasion of his own birthday, had written to Mr. Wilder : " Is it possible that eight years have elapsed since I saw you ? With what rapid pace are we travelling on toward the eternal world ! We shall soon meet, if we are in Christ, never to separate. There we shall, I trust, spend hours more happy than those at Nanterre, or in the little boudoir at Paris. All the com forts we receive here in our souls are but an earnest of the Spirit—a near foretaste of the joys which shall be hereafter revealed. May your path be like that of the shining light which shineth more and more unto the per fect day. Yours in the best of bonds, JONAS KING." The time of separation was short ; Dr. King followed his friend to heaven in a little more than four years. Hawley, his native place, and Plainfield, Mass., too, were points of interest to the returned wanderer from for eign lands. One can hardly imagine the old elm-tree as quite devoid of feeling, as came again under its now wide-sheltering arms the worn missionary, who in his boyhood had consecrated himself to Christ under its young shadow. The hills, the woods, the landscape were there as of old en time. Few changes had come into the quiet country
town of Hawley ; yet "its sound had gone out into all the earth," had been repeated in the courts of the Areop agus, and with its neighbor, PIainfield (where had been educated in a school taught by the Rev. Moses Hallock fifty ministers of the gospel, of whom ten were mission aries), it stands in silent testimony of what God can do, using for his own glory and the good of souls places so obscure that but little is expected from them. Dr. King visited many parts of this country, spending some time at Chicago, where he received much kindness from Gov. Bross and others ; also at Rochester. By invitation of Dr. Henry Foster, Dr. King spent three weeks at Clifton Springs, N. Y., and found his stay there of decided benefit to his health, enjoying at the same time the society of the many Christian friends always to be fourid at this modern Bethesda. At New Haven it was pleasant to meet again Mrs. Pelatiah Perit, as also at New York Mrs. T. C. Doremus, with her home ever open to the missionary. At Bible, Tract, and Missionary meetings, in city or in country places, Dr. King's marked and venerable countenance was, during this last visit, ever most wel come. To younger members of our churches his pres ence was almost as if one rose from the dead. He often afterwards referred to one evening as of special interest. His old friends, Dr. and Mrs. Goodell of Constantinople, and daughters, had come for a few days on a visit to Elizabeth, N. J. Dr. King also was there at the same time. Other Christian friends living in the neighbor hood were invited in to share in the pleasure of meeting 342 , ONAS KING. these two veteran soldiers of the cross. It was an occa sion for prayer and praise. The pastor of the family, Rev. Dr. William C. Roberts, who had become acquaint ed with these missionaries in their Eastern homes, and whose church Dr. King, while visiting one of his daugh ters and other friends, attended for several months, led in the services, and was able, in his own native Welsh, to join in the chorus of the favorite hymn of Dr. Goodell, Can we doubt that the Master of Assemblies heard, as in Arabic, Armenian, French, English, and Welsh, the invitation, " Come to Jesus just now," was given in such various as well as heartfelt tones ? But time passed on, and although enjoying the many welcomes given them to the homes of their children and of Christian friends, Dr. and Mrs. King felt that their steps must turn homeward to the East. A few friends, Mr. E. C. Benedict, Amos Clark, Jr., William E. Dodge, E. A. Saxton, Mahlon Mulford, W. W. Chester, J. B. Sheffield, Theodore Dwight, R. T. Haines, Mrs. Thomas C. Doremus, and Mrs. Ailing of Rochester, together with Mr. King's sons-in-law, made strenuous efforts to retain him in this country by secu ring for him a home here ; but strong ties drew both himself and Mrs. King to Athens : and "so it came," as John Bunyan says, and as is recorded of the apostles, "they were let go in peace." It was a parting such as that of Paul from Miletus. Of the long-known and be loved missionary, also, it may be said, his friends " sor rowed most of all" that in this world they would proba bly "see his face no more." RETURN TO GREECE. 343 CHAPTER XXIII. RETURN TO GREECE—DEATH IN 1869. Paris Revisited—Missionary Reunion—The Past and Present of Palestine—Rev. Mr. Jessup—Athens—Letter to Mrs. Dore mus, Wilder, and Perit—His Sickness, and Death—Dr. King's Manner and Character, in Letters from Mrs. Kalopothakes His own Review of his Missionary Life. DR. AND MRS. KING returned to Greece in the autumn of 1867. In Paris, which Dr. King found "much improved and beautiful, but not so dear" to his heart after all as some of the cities of his native land, a pleasant incident met him at the Greek consulate. On entering the office, the consul rose to meet him, and said, " Are you not Dr. King?" and added, "Why, I used to attend your service on the Sabbath ;" and then gave him the most cordial welcome possible, and showed him every mark of respect before the other Greeks present. Thus did Greece meet her returning missionary halfway, on his return for the last time to her ancient shores. Of the Paris Exposition, then open, Dr. King writes as one might now the better do of the more elaborate display by which America celebrated her centennial: " It is splendid. On entering, one feels as if he were in a fairy wilderness of beauty, where, as if by magic, every thing most exquisite of nature and of art has been assem bled from every part of the globe."
But the "heights of Zion" afford a wider scope of vision than "all the kingdoms of this world, and the glory of them," in their relations to the present alone, can ever do. A glimpse of such does a correspondent of the New York " Observer," A. C. P., give, under the heading, "Dr. Jonas King in Paris," in the following account of services singularly appropriate held during his last visit there : "PARIS, November 17, 1867. " I have just had the pleasure of attending a very in teresting meeting of welcome to Dr. Jonas King, held by the Evangelical Missionary Society, under which he went out as a missionary forty-five years ago. "Dr. King was requested to give some account of the condition of Palestine, and of his work while there, and was introduced to the audience by the Rev. Dr. Grand pierre, who presided. Dr. King spoke nearly an hour to an audience intensely interested, and moved to smiles and tears at his simple history. " Especially were they affected by the story of the Martyr of Lebanon, Asaad El-Shidiak.' When Dr. King mentioned how, being called to choose between kissing an image of the Virgin and a coal of fire, he press ed the burning coal to his lips, an audible murmur was heard in the assembly. " The speaker, being urged to continue his address, gave a brief account of his work in Greece during nearly half a century. He spoke in French, and it was a mar vel to all how he could speak so fluently and correctly, after being so long unused to the language.
"At the conclusion of Dr. King's address, Dr. Grand pierre arose and grasped his hand, bidding him God_ speed in his work, and expressing his pleasure at being permitted to meet him again in Paris. " Rev. Dr. Casalis, Director of the Mission House, fol lowed with a short address of welcome and thanks in the name of all present. He spoke of Dr. King's assistance in the organization of the Society, and of his influence in causing himself to become a missionary in South Africa. Dr. Casalis read part of a letter from Dr. King to the Society in 1823, which was very pertinent to the object of the meeting. " The Rev. Mr. Jessup, who was in the city a few days, on his way home from Syria, was then introduced as one able to give information of Palestine as it now is. He spoke in English, and Rev. Mr. Fisch interpreted it admirably. Mr. Jessup alluded to the work done by the pioneer missionaries, Revs. Dr. King, Pliny Fisk, and Levi Parsons, and said that, overlooking the grave of Mr. Fisk at Beyrout, were now established steam-presses, turning out copies of that gospel for which he had laid down his life, and for which Asaad El Shidiak suffered and died. He stated that in all that region every priest, every man, wom an, and child knows the story of Asaad, and why he died. So he by his death yet speaks, and to a class difficult of access by the truth. It was beautiful, this mingling of the past and the present of France and America. There sat Dr. King, the modern Paul of Athens, the representative of the fearless and faithful laborers who forty years ago broke up the ground for the seed to spring up afterwards; 346 , ONAS KING. and here stood Mr. Jessup, the no less earnest worker, who is gathering in its fruits to-day. The work of one is nearly completed, that of the other we will pray may be continued yet many years. And the little band of French Protestants, whose lot has been so hard in this great Catholic country, must have been 'encouraged by the friendly words of their American brothers. Many came forward to shake hands with the two missionaries, and one of the French pastors remarked : ' These Americans are made of granite, we of dough.' Dr. King replied, ' It is you who say it, not I.' This Society, whose first mis sionary was Dr. King, was established in 1822. In 1821, when Dr. King came to Paris, there was but one evan gelical preacher, the Rev. Frederic Monod, then just entering upon his career of usefulness. Adolphe Mo nod, whose name is familiar to Americans, and his broth er William (or 'Guillaume) followed after. The last of these gifted brothers, a lonely old man, still remains. He it was who made the impressive prayer at our good meeting. He often alludes to a conversation with Dr. King nearly half a century ago, as being the means of turning him from Unitarianism to orthodoxy. He spoke of it to Mrs. King at his own house this week. " It was exceedingly gratifying to Dr. King to be so cordially welcomed among the French Protestants of Paris. I think the meeting did us all good. As Rev. Mr. Fisch said, it was quite a remarkable and beautiful inci dent that Mr. Jessup should have been present to follow up Dr. King's account with a statement of the present condition of the country in which he had labored. The
contrast between then and now was very striking ; as also in Paris, where forty evangelical ministers now stand up in the place of one ! May the good _ work progress continually." When arrived at home, Dr. King never had strength to undertake much missionary labor. Dr. Kalopothakes, Mr. Constantine, and M. Sakellarius each had estab lished Bible classes and Sunday-schools ; and Dr. King wisely refrained from holding a separate service of his o wn. Dr. Anderson states that "in April, 1868, a distin guished professor in the University arranged for an in terview between Dr. King and the President of the ' Holy Synod.' This man, in 1863, signed the accusation against Dr. King, in consequence of which, after his return to Greece, he was a third time cited before the criminal court, though without any result. The interview was altogether pleasant, and was a striking illustration of the progress of public opinion. `A considerable degree of religious liberty has been gained,' writes the missionary, `and a foundation .has been laid on which, I trust, will one day arise a beautiful superstructure.'" Dr. King employed a part of his time in revising plans he had already drawn up in view of the organiza tion of a distinctively Protestant Greek Church. Such a candlestick has now been lighted in Athens. A neat and beautiful church building, since 1874, wit nesses for Jesus, a true altar to the " Unknown God," once worshipped there. In this waiting time, Dr. King's thoughts turned
warmly to his early friends, as a letter from Athens, bear ing date January 26, 1869, best testifies. " To Mrs. T. C. Doremus, Mrs. S. V. S. Wilder, Mrs. Peletiah Perit "My very dear friends : I often think of you, the only remaining three of the nine of whom the Ladies' Greek Committee consisted ; by whose invitation, and under whose auspices I came out to Greece, nearly forty-one years ago, and in connection with whom I labored with so much pleasure for two years or more, before I received from the American Board my appointment as its mission ary in this country. " Six of the nine have gone to their rest, as I doubt not, in the world above, and are now in those mansions which our Saviour long ago went to prepare for his•follow ers, that they might be with him where he is, and behold his glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. " I think of you, who remain, as probably approaching the time of your departure, as I am that of mine, from this world, in which you have so long labored for the good of many, and my prayer to God is often that when that time shall come, which I hope may not be till after many more useful and happy years, you may have grace given you from on high, so as to overcome all fears of death, and rejoice in the prospect of having a better and happier life than we can have here in the body exposed to so many trials, encompassed by so many infirmities ; and in this world where sin and death reign, rejoice in the pros pect of life without sorrow, pain, or sin, life eternal.
"I often think of your great generosity, and the kind ness you showed me more than forty years ago, and during the time of my late visit to my native land : and from one of your number nearly half a century ago, when I was a stranger in a foreign laud, and who, when I was a sick and nigh unto death, visited me and adminis tered to my wants ; and who, with her beloved husband, who now rests from his labors, when I began to recover, received me into their house, and by their Christian kind ness contributed much toward my restoration to health, so that I was enabled to go out as a missionary to the land where patriarchs and prophets once lived, the apos tles of our Lord and Saviour labored, and where he poured out his soul unto death for our sins, and the sins of the world. " To your generosity and kindness, my dear friends, I owe much, and shall remember you with gratitude, esteem, and affection, as long as I live. " I am now nearly seventy-seven years old, and have been absent from my country for the greater part of half a century ; but I feel that my heart is as warm as ever ; and that my love for my country and my friends, time and distance can never abate. " With affectionate remembrance to the members of your respective families, with whom,I have the pleasure to be acquainted, I remain, " Yours truly, JONAS KING." The "last of earth " was soon at hand. Dr. hing " passed away " May 22, 1869. Jo„-.8 stn;. 30
Of his last hours, his death, and the funeral services, Mrs. Kalopothakes, at request of Mrs. King, wrote to friends in America, as follows: " We are all overwhelmed with the suddeness of the event, for although he has been very feeble this spring, and has had several attacks of his old complaint, yet it is only within two days that any serious symptom appeared. You could not have been more surprised, I think, than we who are on the ground, and as it was a complaint from which he had suffered occasionally for years, we did not apprehend danger till the very last. The pain was so great during the last two days that he could not converse; and it was only in the cessation which usually precedes death, that my husband, seeing him sinking, approached, and asked him whether there was anything he wished to say. He found his mind at peace, resting upon Jesus as his only hope, and clear to the very last. He gave parting counsel to those about him, and sent messages to his son, to the little band of Greek converts about us, etc., and gave directions as to his burial, which was to be without pomp. " A consultation of physicians was called on Friday evening, and again at ten o'clock in the evening ; but his agony was great, and at a little after one at midnight, his spirit was released from the poor suffering body. I can only say that we feel that our father is taken from us ; that a prince in Israel has fallen. He is lying there in the parlor, looking so sweet and calm, as if in a peaceful sleep. For him we cannot weep, for he is now in the presence of that Saviour whom he loved, and so faithfully DEATH OF D.R. KING. 351 served ; but for ourselves, and the work here, we may well say that our ` Master is taken from our head to-day.' May a double portion of his spirit rest on those who are left to carry it on." At a little later date, Mrs. Kalopothakes again writes : " Not only at the funeral, but the next clay (the Sab bath), at our preaching servive, my husband delivered an address, giving an account of Dr. King's life and charac ter, the sacrifices he had made, and the service done for Greece, which drew tears from many eyes. His day of honor here will come, if it has not already : not even his enemies could deny the simplicity and uprightness of his conduct and character. Generous, loving, kind and for giving, he was a friend to all. "To the missionary work here his death will be a great loss ; for although since his return from America he has not been able to do a great deal of active work, yet his mind and heart were ever busy devising plans, suggesting, counselling and encouraging those whom he was to leave to carry them on. He brought forward the Nicene Creed as the basis of union for the Evangelical Greeks, and had lately had it printed in a large and at tractive form, and hung in our places of worship. He hoped to live to see the building of an Evangelical Greek church in Athens, and even the prospect of this did much to gladden the last year of his life. His heart was full of hope for this nation, as it was also full of love." In view of the coming end, Dr. King had left the sub joined directions as to his burial: "In case of my death here in Athens, I wish to be buried near the wall in the 352 , OiVAS KING. cemetery where I purchased, some years since, of the Rev. John H. Hill, D. D., a burying-place, and where I buried my little daughter, Anna Aspasia ; leaving be tween me and her a space for my wife, should she die in this place. " On my tombstone I wish for no inscription, except JONAS KING. BORN JULY 29TH, 1792. DIED "My tombstone I wish to be perfectly simple without any carving on it. "JONAS KING." His wishes were carried out. There was a large at tendance at the funeral, although Grecian skies were weeping heavily at the time, as if in sympathy. Mrs. Kalopothakes, just before leaving this country, after a visit here in 1871, wrote by special request some of her impressions of the venerated friend, whom she was allowed to follow so soon to a heavenly home. Her note is not alone discriminating as to his character, but so descriptive of the courtly simplicity of Dr. King's man ner, as to bring him vividly before us. " I have not forgotten my promise to give you some of my personal impressions of dear Dr. King, and now, on the eve of going back to the land and the work so associated with him, many memories cluster around me of my first arrival there, the warm welcome I received from him, and the pleasant friendship which lasted through the fourteen years of our acquaintance there. DEATH OF Dl?. KING. 353 " Having heard from childhood of Dr. King, I had expected to see a venerable-looking patriarch, so old and so grave as to have no sympathies in common with me. What then was my surprise at his almost youthful face and his erect figure, the vivacity and courteousness of his manner, combining the dignity of the gentleman with the warmth of the Christian heart. " His character, too, was transparent in its purity and simplicity. He seemed the very soul of truth and up rightness ; indeed, I have often thought that the real source of the hatred of his enemies arose from this, that it was impossible for him to dissemble, and they saw as in a glass his inward disapproval of all that was wrong in them or their doctrines. " He has been represented as bitter and severe, always ready to attack and provoke opposition. He was, on the contrary, almost effeminately fond of good-will and praise. It must have been a trial to him to incur anything else ; but his moral sense was so high and strong, that he could not smile at evil nor wink at sin ; he could not but stand up for the truth, like his Master, even though the whole world should frown upon him. He could not compromise with error even by silence. "But his large, warm heart shone from his eyes, and beamed from a countenance peculiarly sweet and win ning. The smile with which he would greet a guest, whoever he might be, and the style he had acquired, per haps by living so long among Orientals, of placing his right hand over his heart, as he bowed low, was a true index of his Christian love and humility. 30*
" With such a nature, the cross which he had contin ually to bear in his forty years of missionary labor, of being misunderstood, abused, and reviled, must have been the very hardest that could have been laid upon him. How keenly he felt any word of sympathy or praise, was shown by the way in which he would repeat it to his friends, and so often, that it was by some ascribed to a foolish boasting. I always felt that it was because his nature craved that appreciation, which had been so long withheld, that when it came it was like water to a thirsty traveller. " Dear, holy man of God ! His life was a perpetual crucifixion; few sympathies or joys were allowed him, his children being nearly all sent away at an early age to be educated ; and his cultivated mind, that could have found such congeniality among friends and pursuits open ed to him in his native land, was confined to presenting the truths of the gospel in the plainest manner to men who came to mock and to turn them into shafts against him. Yet he was very patient ; he made me think of of the man Moses who was so meek,' and of the meek ness and gentleness of Christ' that Paul inculcates. " But he labored faithfully ; he bore the heat and bur den of the day, he toiled on when others would have fainted, and he took possession of the soil for Jesus. We to whom, when the Master called, he relinquished his labors, see what he accomplished, and rejoice in the springing seed. " Oh, how we mourned when he died ! We felt as if we could not give up that warm sympathy, that ready DEATH OF DR. KING. 355 and sound counsel, that interest ever planning and pray ing for the good of Greece and the extension of Christ's kingdom there. We felt that both we and the work heeded him still. Yet God knew best. Ilis dust is there as an incitement to labor on, and the day will come when Greece will honor it as that of the greatest of her benefactors." A few lines from his own pen give a little idea of Dr. King's own feelings as to his life's work : " In all my missionary labors I have ever sought wisdom and direc tion from on high, feeling that I could not trust to my own wisdom and understanding. In many trying scenes and difficult circumstances the hand of God has been most manifest in my deliverance. The wrath of man has been made to praise Him, and the remainder of wrath has he restrained." " I have been endeavoring to declare those great truths contained in the word of God neces sary for men to know and believe in order to be saved." " In my missionary labors in my native country, in France, in Palestine and Syria, and in Greece, my great object has been to build up the cause of the Lord Jesus Christ. To this I have sacrificed my own private inter ests and my personal reputation and comfort, and God has been faithful to his promise and has provided for me. ' Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,' he has said, 'and all these things shall be added unto you.' With a constitution naturally feeble, and with fre quent bodily infirmities, I have been enabled, by strict temperance in eating and drinking, and in all the enjoy ments of life, to perform more labors than I could at first
have thought possible. God strengthened me, he sup ported me, he healed my diseases, he delivered me in times of danger ; he who led Israel through the deep as on dry land, and fed them in the wilderness, and cast out their enemies, and gave them possession of the promised land—he who sent his angel and saved Daniel from the mouth of the lions, and the three children from the power of the heat in the fiery furnace—has stood by me, and in him alone has been my hope. If I have done anything in his cause, to him I ascribe the glory. For my short comings in duty, and for any errors I may have commit ted while engaged in his work, from him I hope for par don, through Jesus Christ our Lord."
CHAPTER XXIV. CONCLUSION. t. List of Texts heading Volumes of Journals.-2. List of Books Written and those Revised.-3. Articles from Napoli Newspa pers relative to Dr. King's Work.-4. Letter regarding Confes sion of Faith for Greek Church.-5. Letter to Professor Hop kins about Williams College Revival.-6. The Only Son. BIBLE TEXTS, which in Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and other languages, head the volumes of memoranda kept by Dr. King for forty years, and which, in fact, give a synopsis of his history : MOUNT CALVARY, February 1, 1824. "For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now say, Peace be within thee." Psa. 122 : 8; Isa. 62: 1 ; Rev. 22 : 20. "And he bath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords." Rev. 19:16. MOUNT CALVARY, March 31, 1823. " There they crucified him." Luke 23 : 33 ; Isa. 53:4; Luke 22:4.4. "All we like sheep have gone astray, and the Lord bath laid on him the iniquity of us all." Isa. 53 : 6. • " For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16. "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he bath sent." John 6:29. • " He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live : and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die." John II :25, 26. " Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief." Mark 9:24. 358 JONAS KING. TARSUS, October 25, 1825. "But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city : and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people." Acts 21:39. MARSEILLES, October 30, 1826. "Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh." Eccles. 12 : 12. EGINA, January 13, 1829. " The Lord is nigh unto all• them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him : he also will hear their cry, and will save them." Psalm 145:18, 19. " Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: casting all your care upon him ; for he careth for you." I Pet. 5 : 7. ISLAND OF TENOS, GREECE, July 5, 1830. "And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of the Lord, he may bring me again, and show me both it and his habitation : but if he thus say, I have no delight in thee ; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him." 2 Sam. 15:25, z6. "... Let him alone, and let him curse ; for the Lord hath bid den him. It may be that the Lord will look on mine affliction, and that the Lord will requite me good for his cursing this day." 2 Sam. 16: 11, 12. "And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any : that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses." Mark II : 25, 26. ATHENS, January 1, 1837. "That like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." Rom. 6:4.
ATHENS, May 20, 1840. "Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contra riwise blessing ; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile ; let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. For the eyes of the Lord are over the right eous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil." I Pet. 3 : 9-12. " Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you : not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, nei ther let it be afraid." John 14:27. ATHENS, September 1, 1842. "Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." John 1 : t3. " But as he which bath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation." I Pet. 1 :15. "Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children." Epbes. 5:1.
ATHENS, October v, 1843. "Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto bath the Lord helped us." I Sam. 7: 12. " My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth." Psa. 121 : 2. " He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youth shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall : but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength ; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." Isa. 4o: 29-31. "He doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth : and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?" Dan. 4: 35. " And those that walk in pride he is able to abate." Dan. 4: 37. 360 .7ONAS KING. ATHENS, September 20, 1845. " Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven : for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets." Luke 6: 22, 23. "And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles." Matt. to: IS. "The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household !" Matt. to: 24, 25. "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul : but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." Matt. 10: 28. "But if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled." 1 Pet. 3: 14. ATHENS, May 1, 1847. " He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from•them which hated me. He brought me forth also into a large place. As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried : he is a buckler to all those that trust in him." Psa. 18:16-3o. "Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength." Isa. 26:4. " It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes." Psa. 113:9. "And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them." 2 Kings 6: 16. GENEVA, September 6, 1847. " The Lord thy keeper." Psa. 1 21:5. "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee." Isa. 26:3.
" When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord bath done great things for us ; whereof we are glad. Turn again our captiv ity, 0 Lord, as the streams in the south. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing pre cious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." Psa. 126. ATHENS, November 12, 1850. "And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord: and great shall be the peace of thy children." Isa. 54:13. "Mary bath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her." Luke to : 42. " He giveth power to the faint ; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall : but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength ; they shall mount up on wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." Isa. 4o :29-31. ATHENS, August 1, 1851. "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." Psa. 3o : 5. " Fear not : for I am with thee : I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west." Isa. 43 : 5• ATHENS, November 1, 1852. "But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God." 1 Sam. 3o : 6. " In God is my salvation and my glory : the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. Trust in him at all times ; ye people, pour out your heart before him : God is a refuge for us." Psalm 62 : 7, S. " Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; ... and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. And Jrnas Ting. 362 JONAS KING. - the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom : to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." z Tim. 4: 17, 18. ATHENS, July 12, 185S. " Why art thou Cast down, 0 my soul ? and why art thou disqui eted within me ? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God." Psa. 42:11. List of Books published by Dr. King :
ern Greek, in French, in Italian, etc. It was put ill the Index at Rome, and prohibited by Pope Gregory XVI. and by Pope Pius IX., and a volume in answer to it was printed in Arabic by the De Propaganda Fide. Of the effect produced on the Armenians at Constantinople by a copy of it in manuscript, sent by an Armenian bishop from Beyroot, Rev. H. G. O. Dwight, D. D., writes in his book, " Christianity Revived in the East." He says that the letter was translated by Bishop Dionysius. "And soon a meeting was called in the Armenian Patriarchal church, at which, it is said, the letter was read, and the references to Scripture examined ; and, as if by common consent, it was agreed that the church needs reform. Out of this grew immediately the famous school of Peshtima Gian. It was established within the precincts of the Patriarchate at Con stantinople, and one particular object was the education of the clergy; the rule being adopted that no individual should thereafter be ordained to the priest's office in the capital who had not comple ted a regular course of study at this school." This "Farewell Let ter" was distributed extensively among the Greeks and Italians in Sardinia and Egypt, and is still used by our missionaries in the East. An English officer printed at his own expense about three thousand copies, and in two nights distributed sixteen hundred of them in Sicily.
whole Oriental church, not only in free Greece, but throughout Turkey.
to. His Answer to a Pamphlet entitled "The Two Clergymen," by the Bishop of Karystia, Macarius, Kaliarchus, 1863. The books printed under his.direction and revised by him in Modern Greek at Athens are :
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to. "The Prayers of the Saints." (Prayers found in the Old and New Testaments.) This book is published in English by the American Tract Society. rt. Five volumes, entitled, "A Collection of Various Works and Religious Tracts," and published from 1853 to 1856. These had already been printed in Modern Greek, but in a style quite un suitable for the present time. The above works in all are fifteen volumes. The number of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, or parts of them, of school books and reli gious tracts, which he has distributed among the Greeks in free Greece and in Turkey (not including those circu lated in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria), will probably amount to not less than four hundred thousand copies. Eighty schools received books from him in one year. From the 1st of January, 1842, to the 3oth of November, 1843, one hundred and eight schools were furnished with books from his shop at Athens. Of these schools, 20 were in the Peloponnesus, 6o in Continental Greece, 7 in the Cyclades, and 21 in Turkey. Translation of an article from the national newspaper printed at Napoli, July 23, 1832, concerning the literary institutions in Athens under the superintendence of Mr. Jonas King, American : 1. One school of mutual instruction, under the direction of Mr. N. Niketoplos, containing ninety-four scholars.
He has also bought a place, where he is building an institution simply for females, in which shall be taught such branches neces sary for the instruction of females as are taught in similar institu tions in Europe. We learn also that the female friends of Greece in Philadelphia, America, contribute in a particular manner to this institution, and for this reason there has been inscribed over the gate, "Philadelphia." Mr. J. King, in 1828, established at Tenos a school for girls, containing about eighty girls. It continued till 1831, when he re moved to Athens. This American Society contributed to the school for girls in Syra under the direction of Mr. Korck. It made a present also to the government, in 1830, of about thirty-five hundred slates and seventy-five thousand pencils, for the use of schools of mutual in struction in Greece. It established also, in 1822, a printing-press in Malta, at which are printed elementary books in different languages, for the most part Eastern. Thousands of such little books have been given gratis to the schools in Greece. The Philhellen Americans have ever shown kindness to our nation, giving, in 1826, much food and clothing, but now they con tribute for the education of our youth. The Athenians, seeing the progress of their children in learn ing, tender, together with the other Greeks, their gratitude to the Philhellen Americans. In 1824 the Philo-muse (literary) Society first established in Athens a school for girls, having for teacher Mr. N. Niketoplos ; *
but in 1831, the loth of April (old style), Mr. J. King, having the same N. Niketoplos as teacher, established a school of mutual in struction, containing a sufficient number of pupils, both males and females, which last, the 3d of June (old style), he ordered to be in a separate school for girls. Afterwards, the 6th of July (old style), the wife of Mr. Hill, American, established a school for girls. The reverend priest, Mr. Jonas King, full of zeal, and a preach er of the gospel, sent by the same Society, for nearly two years preached the gospel in France and in other parts of Europe, and four years in Egypt, Syria, and Palestine, and other parts of Asia, and in Constantinople. A plan of the gymnasium sent to be published in the "Minerva," September 9, 1S31, was prefaced by the edi tor with these remarks : The Rev. Mr. Jonas King, known for his charities and benefi cence to almost all the wretched in the time of our struggle, and since the settlement of the affairs of our nation, devoted to the work of enlightening it, has sent us the new organization of his gymnasium at Athens, which we hasten to publish in our paper, that the public may see how well the sincere friends of humanity know what are the best means of benefiting it and bringing it to its true happiness. Far from attributing to the venerable King or others any de signs of proselytism, which designs, did they exist, would in the nineteenth century be rather ridiculous than worthy of regard, we cannot but express the gratitude of our nation to the Americans who have set such a worthy example, while we would also proclaim the virtues of the venerable King, especially the diligence and assi duity which he as well as his colleagues exhibit for our illumination. Copy of a letter to the Rev. Rufus Anderson with regard to a confession of faith for the Greek church : ATxE.NS, February 7, 1850. REV. RUFUS ANDERSON, D. D.—My Dear Brother : I am not certain whether I mentioned to you or not, some months since, that I had been occupied for a while in writing a small work in Greek, CONCL US/ON. 367 entitled "Exposition of an Apostolic Church," with a "Confession of Faith" and a " Covenant," all founded entirely on the Word of God, from which, in proof of what I have said, passages are quoted in full. The "Exposition" consists of thirty-one articles and the " Confession of Faith " of twelve. The object of the whole is to show in what a truly apostolical church consists, on what foundation it is built, by what rule it is guided, what doctrines it believes, what powers it possesses, in what manner its officers are to be chosen, what their character ought to be, what are their peculiar duties, and how they are to be support ed ; its relation to other churches, as also the relation of its officers to those of other churches ; to whom baptism is to be administered, in what manner, and for what object; who are to partake of the Lord's Supper, in what manner, and how often, the nature and ob ject of the elements used in that supper; how the discipline of the church is to be administered, and with what spirit, and what punish ment it may inflict on disorderly members; in what manner prayers are to be offered, and to whom and through what mediation ; what kind of fasting is permitted, and when; under what circumstances divorce is permitted; what kind of worldly diversions are condemn ed ; in what manner the Lord's day is to be consecrated; that feasts are not to be kept in honor of saints and angels ; that certain Jew ish and heathen customs are not to be permitted in religious rites, such as the use of lighted lamps and candles during the day, in cense, offerings for the dead, the worship of images of whatever kind, servile reverence of religious teachers, theatrical representa tions of the sufferings and death of Christ at Easter, the worship of dead men's bones, the kissing of crosses, the making the sign of the cross as a preservative against evil or the evil influences of the devil, or in the room of prayer, the use of amulets, prayers, and ceremonies for the souls of the dead; that the so-called mysteries are to be rejected; that the object of baptism and the Lord's Sup per is manifest, and not to be called mysteries ; that the ceremony of marriage and of inducting a pastor into office contain no mystery whatever; that no miracles are now wrought by anointing with oil; that secret confession is not enjoined, but that confession, in case of public scandal, should be public and in presence of the whole church ; and in case of sin, to whom we are ever to apply for par don, and in what way it can be obtained.
To the whole I have written a short preface, bringing into view certain principles and traits of the human mind which lead men to err on the subject of religion, and showing why I reject all traditions and commandments of men, and take for my guide the Word of God alone. The work is intended principally for the Eastern and Western churches, but also for all others which, have in any degree wandered from the purity and simplicity of the gospel either in faith or prac tice, either in internal organization or in outward ceremonies. And as the people in the East are lamentably ignorant of the Sacred Scriptures, and as multitudes do not possess them, I have thought it important to quote in full the passages of Scripture to which, in other circumstances, I should need perhaps only to refer. But even where the Sacred Scriptures are in the hands of all, many probably prefer to see a text quoted rather than to be sent to anoth er book in search of it. The whole will not make, I think, more than eighty or a hun dred pages rzmo, and of course can be read by almost any one with out much fatigue. Large books' on religious subjects most men are not fond of, and only a few will read. I was moved to write-this in part by the impression on my mind that such a kind of guide is necessary for those who perhaps begin to see the light, but from never having been taught the way in which they should go, are in danger of wandering every time they see a path that turns to the right or to the left, and that it would be espe cially necessary should there ever be in these regions, as I doubt not there will be, any considerable excitement on the subject of religion, or any great movement towards a change. I have not only prepared it in Greek, but have also had it trans lated into French and Italian, in each of which languages Yüklə 0,75 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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