tion with two emeers, whose eyes had been burnt out, and tongues cut off, by the prince of Mount Lebanon. He learnt from the unfortunate emeers, that their eyes were put out by having a red hot iron thrust into them. Notwithstanding a part of their tongues was cut off, they could articulate intelligibly. They were punished in this cruel manner for having taken some part with Sheik Bushir in the disturbances, which, in the previous winter, had been occasioned in Mount Lebanon.

An object, which engaged Mr. Fisk's attention at this time, was the establishment of a school at Beyroot for teaching Arabic grammatically. And for this purpose he had engaged Mr. King's teacher. What led to a consideration of this subject was the fact, that it is very difficult for Christians to find a suitable Arabic instructor; the grammatical knowledge of the language being principally confined to Mussulmans, who seldom condescend to instruct native Christians.

On the 26th of September he accompanied his fellow-laborer, Mr. King, to the Sardinian brig in which he was to sail, having closed the three years for which he engaged. On their way their conversation turned upon the dangers to which they were likely to be exposed; the little probability of their ever meeting again in this world; the importance of being faithful while it is called to-day; and the hope of meeting each other, when their labors and trials should be finished.

TO ONE OF HIS BROTHERS.

"I feel interested in the welfare of your children, and shall ever rejoice to hear that they are well and happy, intelligent and virtuous. But above all I should rejoice to hear that they have been made partakers of the grace of God. Often reflect, dear

Brother, on the value of their immortal souls, and let the consideration stimulate you to pray earnestly for them, to exhibit a consistent and holy example for their imitation, and to speak affectionately and solemnly to them about their guilt and danger, and the way of life by the blood of Jesus. Persuade them, entreat them, warn them, to flee from the wrath to come. Invite them, and, if possible, win them to the love of the Saviour. Parental exhortations often have a powerful effect. Can you bear the thought that any one of your children should remain an enemy to God, live in sin, die impenitent, and be miserable forever? If the thought of this is dreadful, then do not rest, till you have evidence that divine grace is dawning in their souls. May God give you a wise and faithful spirit, and make you the instrument of bringing all your children to Christ."

While in Western Asia, Mr. Fisk became deeply interested in the present state of the Greeks, and he was impressed with the consideration, that the facilities for introducing among them the means of religious instruction were peculiarly favorable. He urged the wants of that oppressed people, and mentioned Smyrna as an important post for missionary labor. He also proposed the publication of a Periodical work at the mission press in Malta, with special reference to the present condition of the Greek population. From a number of documents it appears, that it was his sanguine conviction that the latter measure would be followed with very desirable results. Nor did his benevolent concern for this people subside, after he had explored the wretchedness of other fields. One of his last productions was a communication, prepared just before his death, and addressed to the Society of Inquiry respecting missions, in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, New Jersey, in which he notices the claims of the

Greeks, and the facilities among them for missionary operations. Some extracts follow.

"The Greeks need missionaries; for, though nominal Christians, they pay an idolatrous regard to pictures, holy places and saints. Their clergy are ignorant in the extreme. Out of hundreds, you will scarcely find one who is capable of preaching a sermon. Of course, there is little preaching; and that little is oftener an eulogium on some saint, than an exhibition of Christ's Gospel. The people are consequently ignorant and vicious. Before the Bible Society began its work, the Scriptures were rare, and in most of the schools that exist, the children merely learn to read ancient Greek, without understanding it. Greece offers to view an extensive missionary field;--the different divisions of Greece, properly so called-the numerous Islands of the Archipelago-a multitude of Greeks scattered over all Turkey-convents innumerablethousands of schools, now almost useless, but needing only a proper organization and suitable books, to render them nurseries of sound learning. Nor should it be forgotten that the Greek church is intimately connected with the predominant church in the immense and rising empire of Russia-and has more or less direct or indirect influence upon all the oriental churches-Armenian, Syrian, Nestorian, Coptic, and Abyssinian.

"The Greeks offer to missionaries many excellent materials to be wrought into the great spiritual building-powerful intellect, lively imagination, zeal, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, love of learning and liberty, which four hundred years of barbarous slavery have not been able to destroy, an earnest desire for civilization, a remembrance of what their fathers were, and the hope of being what England and America now are, and all these traits of character brought into action by the idea, that the present is the period of their national regeneration.

“The Greek church itself opens the door to missionaries. It has always allowed the distribution of the Scriptures, and has had disputes with papists on this point. The Greek patriarchs, archbishops and bishops, have generally favored the cause of the Bible Society, and have more than once written pastoral letters to recommend its object.

"We have printed many thousand Tracts in Greek: they have been received with pleasure, and ecclesiastics and dignitaries of the church assist in distributing them. Among these Tracts are the Dairyman's Daughter, Young Cottager, William Kelly, Leslie's method with Deists, Watts on the end of time, Dr. Green's Questions and Counsel, and many others translated from the English. To the schools and convents we have free access for the distribution of Scriptures and Tracts, and do not often meet with Greeks who oppose our work.

"Several important errors of the papists have never been admitted by the Greeks, such as papal supremacy, purgatory, selling indulgences, the inquisition, forbidding the Scriptures, and giving the Lord's Supper in only one kind.

"The Greeks, however, pray to saints, and enjoin auricular confession, and pray for the dead, and know of no other regeneration than baptism.

"The present is the time for a mission to Greece. The nation is roused-the elements of national and individual character are all in motion. An impression, a turn of public opinion, the commencement of institutions which at another time would require years, might now be effected at once.

"It is desirable that the time of political revolution should also be a period of religious reform.

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"Americans should undertake this mission. prejudices of Greece are all in their favor, and strongly so in preference to every other nation on earth except the English. There is no time to be lost. It is even now too late. The missionaries

should ere this have been near the field learning the language and preparing to act. Brethren, let no more time be lost. We who have been sent to other parts around the Mediterranean, call to you to come literally into Macedonia and help us. Who would not love to preach in Greek on Mars Hill? Whose soul would not be filled with holy joy and trembling at the thought of writing letters to evangelical churches planted by his own preaching in Corinth and Thessalonica? And methinks the dullest imagination would be fired with a poet's flame on sitting down in sight of Mount Parnassus, or on its summit, to give David's songs a Greek dress. And how ought a Christian from America to feel at the thought of introducing Christianity into such a nation as Greece, at the very commencement of its political existence."

It will have been perceived from what has been exhibited, that Mr. Fisk possessed a spirit of benevolence expansive as the spiritual wants of mankind. A thousand hearts, had they been his, would have yearned over the forlorn condition of a world lying in wickedness-and a thousand bodies, had they been at his disposal, would have been devoted to the service of Christ among the dwellers in the dark places of the earth. As he stood on the mountains of Judea, and "looked northward and southward, and eastward, and westward," and saw how many people and nations were given to idolatry, he exclaims, "The harvest truly is plenteous." He sighed and wept, longing, not only to enjoy the pleasure of welcoming more laborers into the field, and of seeing those already there more holy; but to find the cheering evidence, that some instances of spiritual conversion were among the fruits of his abundant labors. This latter occasion of rejoicing he was not permitted to have, till his work was finished.

"Let us not cease to pray the Lord of the harvest," he says to one of his fellow laborers, "that he