SAVAS

[s. 667] : An island of the East Indies, southwest of Timor Island, southeast of Java; has estimated population of 16,500, more than half whom of are nominally Christians. They are visited twice a year by the Dutch Government a istant pastor residing at Kupang, Timor. SAWYER PUR AM A village in Madras, India, situated in Tinnevelli district, a short distance Founded in 1814 by Mr. S. of Pal am cotta. Sawyer, an English trader, who bought the land in order to make a refuge for persecuted converts. Station of the SPG (1826), with (1903) 1 mi ionary, 57 native workers, 21 places of worship, 10 day schools, 1 boarding school, and 2,789 profe ed Christians, of whom 1,027 are communicants: SCHAUFFLER, William Gottlieb: Born in Died 22, 1798. January 26, 1883. His early life was spent at Ode a, in Ru ia, where he worked at his father’s trade as a turner. At the age of twenty two he confe ed his faith in Christ. He early became interested in foreign mi ions; and in 1826, meeting the famous mi ionary. Dr. Joseph Wolff, his enthusiasm was further kindled. FindStuttgart, Germany, August ing, however, the plans of Dr. Wolff impracticable, he went to Constantinople, and thence to Smyrna, where he met Rev. Jonas King, who induced him He entered And over Theological Seminary, where he remained five years, studying often fourteen and sixteen hours a day. He says: “Aside from the study of Greek and Hebrew, and general cla ical reading, I studied the Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, Samaritan, Rabbinic, Hebrew-German, Persian, Turkish, and Spanish; and, in order to be somewhat prepared for going to Africa, I extracted and wrote out pretty fully the Ethiopic and Coptic grammars. For some years I read the to go to America for an education. the my New ediT est ament and Psalms for instead of the German or the English text.” He also aided the profe ors in their translations. He was ordained November 14, 1831, a mi ionary of the to the Jews of Syriac fication, ABCFM Turkey. He studied Arabic and Persian with De Sacy, and Turkish with Prof. Kieffer in Paris, and then went to Constantinople. There he preached in German, Spanish, Turkish, and English. In 1838 he visited Ode a, chiefly on Mrs. Schauffler’s account, and was much engaged in ScUanfller, W. G. evangelistic work, resulting in many conversions. He translated the Bible into Hebrew-Spanish, that is, Spanish with a mixture of Hebrew words and written with Hebrew characters, for the Jews in Constantinople, descendants of those who had been driven from Spain. Dr. Schauffler, besides being a translator, was an earnest evangelical preacher, his Sunday services in English and German for local residents being greatly ble ed. He delivered in Constantinople a series of discourses, which were published in a volume by the American Tract Society, entitled “Meditations on the Last Days of Christ.” In 1835 the first Jewish convert, a German whom he had known sixteen years before in Ru ia, not being allowed by the Government to profe Christianity except as a member of the Greek Church, went to Constantinople and was by him baptized. In 1839 he went to Vienna to superintend the printing of the Hebrew-Spanish Old Testament. There he resided three years, and many striking conversions occurred through his labors. He presented to the emperor, in a private interview, his printed Bible, on which he had bestowed great labor. The Jews having pronounced a favorable verdict upon it, a second and larger edition was printed. Journeying from Vienna he spent ten days in Pesth, where many of the better cla of Jewish families embraced the Christian faith. The Jewish Mi ion having been relinquished in 1855, he was requested by the Scotch Free Church, to which it had been transferred, to take charge of the work, but he declined. He declined also the proposal to enter the Armenian field. About this time he was appointed by the Mi ion to lay before the Evangelical Alliance, soon to meet at Paris, the great question of religious liberty in Turkey, and to urge the Alliance to memorialize the sovereigns of Europe to use their influence with the Sultan to secure the abolition of the death penalty for Muslim converts to Christianity. The result was seen in the triumph of Sir Str at ford Canning. The morning he left Paris the news of Sebastopol’s fall was proclaimed on the streets, and in Stuttgart, his native city, he addre ed an immense audience on the Crime an War. After this war the way seemed open for mi ionary work among the Turks, and Dr. Schauffler, with the approval of the mi ’on, decided to enter that field. To fit himself for this new work, he applied himself to In 1857 a paper on the Turkish language anew. the Turkish and Bulgarian work, prepared by Drs. Schauffler and Hamlin, was sent to the Prudential Committee, and Dr. Schauffler was deputed by the mi ion to present, in America and England, the claims of the new mi ion to Aftethirty-one years of absence he the Turks. His appeals met with a genset sail for home. The Prudential Committee, erous response. however, decided, after the Turkish Government refused liberty of conscience to Muslims, not to continue the separate mi ion to Mohammedan Turks, but to have the Armenian Mi ion cover This decision, and the entrance the whole field. of the SPG into Turkey, led Dr. SchauflSer to resign as a mi ionary of the Board, but he pursued his Bible translation in the employ of the American and British and Foreign Bible SocieHis great work was the translation of the ties. whole Bible into the literary Turkish, the language of the books as distinguished from that This occupied him of the common people. He published an ancient Spanish eighteen years. Scbemacbi Science version of the Old Testament, revised by himself, with the Hebrew original in parallel columns, a popular translation of the Psalms into Spanish, a grammar of the Hebrew language in Spanish, a Hebrew-Spanish Lexicon of the Bible. He contributed also articles in Spanish to a mi ionary He was a remarkable periodical in Salonica. linguist, able to speak ten languages and read as many more. His rare scholarship, and especially his translation of the Bible into literary Turkish, led the Universities of Halle and Wittenberg to confer upon him the degrees of D.D. and Ph.D., and Princeton College the degree of Doctor of Laws. For his great services to the German colony of Constantinople the King of Pru ia He left Con conferred upon him a decoration. 1874, and went to New York with stantinople He his wife to live with his two youngest sons. was in the active mi ionary work for nearly m fifty years. 668