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120 What Has Been Done for These People
this book has been translated through the Bible societies into over
four hundred and fifty different languages. This is the book which
the Greeks, as faithful custodians, kept through those dark ages of
persecution and barbarism. Indeed, this is the greatest gift among
the nations, to build up the foundation of true freedom, civilization
and prosperity. This little book is the one which stirred up the world
and brought true freedom and civilization, and which saves the
multitudes from their sins and gives comfort to sorrowing souls. No
other gift has accomplished so much as this.
Is not this enough to make us realize that we are debtors to the
Greeks? Is not this enough to arouse our sympathy toward this little
nation in these trying times, and to compel us to help with all our
powers to evangelize the Greeks? I think we all agree in saying:
"Yes."
The Remnant of a Great Nation
The remnant of the great Hellenic race is now over fourteen million.
Nearly six million five hundred thousand are in Greece proper, which
is a free state. A little over three and a half million were in Asia
Minor when I left that country eleven years ago; but how many are
left now after the massacres and deportations, no one can tell.
Letters received through Russia describe the great massacres of
Greeks in many places. At three of the churches where I spent most
of my precious early years, all the members were massacred or died
of starvation in deportation.
The rest of the Greeks are scattered throughout the world; four
hundred and fifty thousand are in the United States and thirty-five
thousand are in Chicago.
If we look in the mission records we shall see that nothing has
been done directly for this nation to which we owe so much. Outside
the state of Massachusetts, where the Home Missionary Society has
two centers, at Boston and Lowell, no other society or church is
helping the Greeks directly here or abroad, except the Chicago Tract
Society. This Greek work was started here ten years ago on a small
scale. Notwithstanding the persecution of some fanatical priests and
some ignorant people, with the power of God, the work has grown
larger and larger. On May 17, 1914, the "First Greek Protestant
Church of Chicago" was organized.
Evangelizing American Greeks
This work has three different parts and is carried on very syste-
matically. The first part is spiritual. We have the organized church,
with its regular Sunday morning and afternon services and prayer
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