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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3n THE BEGINNINGS OF PROTESTANT MISSIONARY ENDEAVOUR IT was still in the period of the German Reformation that Freiherr Hans Ungnad von Sonegg, a Protestant who had been a captain in the Austrian army in Hungary and in Steiermark in the wars against the Ottomans, began his indefatigable labours. In his old age (1540-1560) after he Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3n THE BEGINNINGS OF PROTESTANT MISSIONARY ENDEAVOUR IT was still in the period of the German Reformation that Freiherr Hans Ungnad von Sonegg, a Protestant who had been a captain in the Austrian army in Hungary and in Steiermark in the wars against the Ottomans, began his indefatigable labours. In his old age (1540-1560) after he had left his home for his faith's sake, he spent his entire fortune on the translation of Protestant literature, 25,600 books in four years into the languages of the Balkans," hoping that by this means the pure teaching of God's Word might be introduced into Turkey and that the All-merciful would in this way smite the Turks with the sword of His almighty power as He had exposed and smitten popery by the hand of Martin Luther of blessed memory" textit{(Christt. Orient, 189T, p. 3ff.). Many German princes and free cities contributed considerable sums to this in its own way great literary mission enterprise. On the threshold of the history of Protestant Missions in the Near East there stands an interesting figure, the Patriarch of Constantinople, textit{Cyril Lucaris (1572-1638). Born in Crete and educated in good schools in Venice and Padua, Lucaris was raised to the chair of the Orthodox Greek patriarchate of Alexandria in 1603. It was here he seems first to have come into touch with Protestantism. He describes the circumstances thus in a letter: Ubi vero Deo placuit misericordi nos illuminare ut animad- verteremus quo in errore versabamur, mature cogitare incepi- mus, quid opus esset facere. Quid ergo feci? Libris aliquot evangelicorum doctorum quos Oriens noster non quod nunquam viderit, sed neque utrum essent, obstantibus pontificiis cen- suris, nunquam audiverit, opera et favore amicorum acquisitis, spiritu sancto assiduis orationibus invocato, per triennium graecas Books, History~~General, History-Of-Protestant-Missions-In-The-Near-East~~Julius-Richter, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

2012, ISBN: 1443285412

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Paperback, [EAN: 9781443285414], General Books LLC, General Books LLC, Book, [PU: General Books LLC], 2012-01-15, General Books LLC, This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1910. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Ill PROTESTANT MISSIONS IN TURKEY AND ARMENIA WE divide European Turkey into four parts: Albania, Macedonia, Thrace, and Bulgaria, though the Principality of Bulgaria is in process of becoming independent. The population of Albania is mainly Albanian, though there is an intermingling of Servians and Turks in the northeast, and of Greeks in Epirus to the south. Of the million of inhabitants, the Roman Church claims 131,400, at least 333,000 belong to the Orthodox Church, and about 100,00 are Bulgarians; the rest of the population is Muhammadan, save for the modest number claimed by the Protestant Mission. Macedonia, including the vilayets of Salonica, Monastir and Kossovo, is inhabited mainly by Greeks in the south and along the coast, and by Bulgarians in the interior, the number of the population being about 2,750,000. Salonica, the chief town, is a busy centre of Protestant missions, which have also secured a footing in the vilayet of Monastir-Bitolia. Thrace, in which lies the capital, and which consists of the vilayets of Constantinople and Adrianople, has a population of 2,000,000, Constantinople alone claiming more than half a million. In Thrace a majority are Turks. The Christians belong mainly to the Greek Orthodox Church. In Bulgaria there are about 3,732,200 inhabitants, of whom 643,258 are Muhammadans. In the statistical tables of 1893, 2,606,786 are given as Greek or Bulgarian Catholics, 22,617 as Boman Catholics, 2,384 as Protestants and 6,643 as Armenian Christians. This makes a total of about 2,640,000 Christians. It is computed that the population of European Turkey, without Bulgaria, numbers rather less than 5,891,000, of whom 3,000,000 are Muhammadans and 2,660,000 Christians. 104 Of the latter, 2,250,000 are Greek Orthodox and 320,000 Roman Ca..., 277320, Missions & Missionary Work, 277318, Evangelism, 277266, Christianity, 58, Religion & Spirituality, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books<

ISBN: 1443285412

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