Search -
Forty Years in the Turkish Empire, Or, Memoirs of Rev. William Goodell; Late Missionary of the A.b.c.f.m. at Constaninople
Forty Years in the Turkish Empire Or Memoirs of Rev William Goodell Late Missionary of the Abcfm at Constaninople Author:William Goodell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1878 Original Publisher: Robert Carter and Bros. Subjects: Missions Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition o... more »f this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XXH. IN the spring of 1862, Dr. Goodell was appointed a delegate to the animal meeting of the Central Turkey Mission, to be held at Aleppo. Although very feeble, he was encouraged by his brethren to undertake the journey, which he did the more readily because it afforded him the only opportunity he would probably ever enjoy of revisiting the scenes of his earliest labors in the East. He was accompanied as far as Alexandretta by several members of his family, who went on to Beyrout, to meet him on his return from Aleppo. At Alexandretta he was joined by his friend and former associate, Rev. S. H. Calhoun. Together they set out on the overland journey to Aleppo, tarrying for a day at Antioch, where they were to be joined by other missionaries. As they were about to engage in their morning worship, before resuming their journey, on Wednesday, the 26th of March, a messenger came in with the tidings that the Rev. Mr. Coffing, of Adana, whom they were expecting to meet, had been shot by robbers or assassins near Alexandretta, and mortally wounded. Mr. Calhoun immediately returned to the place and found him dead. Within about an hour, of Alexandretta, Mr. Coffing and his two attendants had been fired on, and all of them wounded. One of the attendants, a pious Armenian, died soon after, but the other, a Moslem, though severely wounded, recovered. The assassins were apprehended after long delay, and one of them executed; the other made his escape. This occurrence not only excited some degree of app...« less