Excerpt from Trials of Missionaries: An Address Delivered in Park-Street Church, Boston, on the Evening of October 24, 1832, to the Rev. Elias Riggs, Rev. William M. Thomson, and Doct; Asa Dodge, About to Embark as Missionaries to the Mediterranean But what were first impressions once, have lost their novelty; and many of the anxieties they occasioned, have been entirely removed, or essentially modified by expe rience. Four times has Providence mercifully preserved me from the plague, while it was hurrying away its victims around; 'a thousand have fallen at my side and ten thou sand at my right hand' from the cholera, and it has not been suffered to touch me; and when nigh unto death in a Persian stable, have friends been raised up to nurse and heal me. I have seen the wrath of the Turk restrained, when provoked by the destruction of his navy, and the approach of a conquering enemy to his capital; no serious molestation has been offered me while travelling thousands of miles in his territories; and even the predatory hand of the barbarous Kurd has not touched me. By observation and repeated argument, the open abominations and subtle wiles of papacy have become familiar. And after being preserved through a dozen voyages, I am mercifully re turned to my country and friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.