History of the Missions of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the Oriental Churches, volume Ii.

Agency of Sir Stratford Canning.--Of Lord Cowley.--Lord Palmerston's Instructions.--Action of the Porte.--The Chevalier Bunsen.--A Vizerial Letter.--Further Concessions.--The Firman.--Good Counsel from Sir Stratford to the Protestants.--Dilatoriness of the Turkish Government.--Still another Concession by the Sultan.--Agency of the American Minister.--Greatness of the Changes.--The Divine Agency recognized.--The Danger.--Why Persecution was continued.--New Missionaries.--Pera again ravaged by Fir