TEMPLE, Daniel

[s. 749] : Born December 23, 1789, at Reading, Ma . Died August 9, 1851. The perusal of Dr. Buchanan’s Christian Researches India at his conversion led him to the decision to become a mi ionary to tlie heathen. He studied at Phillips Academy, And over; Dart mouth College, and And over Theological Seminary. He was ordained October 3, 1821, and embarked January 2, 1822, as a mi ionary of the ABCFM for Syria, reaching Malta February 22. Here he remained till 1833, the political condition of Turkey and Syria rendering it unsafe for a mi ionary family to settle there. He prepared books and tracts for circulation in Italy, Greece, and Turkey, which were printed on the pre he took with him, widely distributed, and well received. In 1828, by invitation of the Prudential Committee, he visited the United States, and engaged in an agency for the Board for two years, returning to Malta in 1830. In addition to the superintendence of the pre , he had during almost his whole residence here two services on the Sabbath in English in his own house, a Sabbath school which he taught himself, and In 1833, by also a lecture Friday evening. direction of the Society, he removed the Greek and Armenian part of the pre plant to Smyrna. From 1822, when the pre was established in Malta, to the time of its removal, were i ued 350,000 volumes containing 21,000,000 pages. Nearly the whole had been circulated, and additional supplies of some of the works were urgently district m demanded. The arrival at Smyrna of a ve el with pre es and printing materials, and an ordained mi ionary, aroused the fanaticism of the Greeks, and Mr. Temple was ordered by the governor to leave the city in ten days. But after some correspondence with the consul the storm pa ed away. The Greek Ecclesiastical Committee broke up eight schools, containing from six to eight hundred children, and forbade the teachers to remain with the mi ionaries, threatening them with imprisonment or banishment if they In 1837 Mr. Temple com refused to obey. menced the publication of a monthly magazine in Greek, The Repository, which met with much The Greek patriarch forbade all his favor. church members to read any of the mi ionaries’ translations of the Scriptures in Turkish, Arabic, During this Servian, Bulgarian or Slavonian. year the plague raged with terrific violence at afterward decided Smyrna. The Board shortly to abandon the specifically Greek department of This left Mr. Temple no option but the mi ion. to return to the United States, which he did in He preached in Concord, N. H., and at 1844. Phelps, N. Y., but resigned his pastorate on account of ill-health December 27, 1849. 749