Different communities Mussulman Jewish and Christian

When the Sublime Porte created a board of instruction, composed of one person from each of the different communities, Mussulman, Jewish, and Christian, Mr. Panayotes was selected to represent the Protestants in that council. When a censorship of the press wras established, and one from each community was to be chosen to meet monthly and examine all books proposed for publication, Mr. Panayotes was the one selected on the part of the Protestants for tliis service.

“ But his most important, and what may be called the crowning work of his life, was the help he afforded in translating the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments into Armeno-Turkish. In translating and revising and carrying through the press several editions of these Scriptures lie was a very efficient helper. He was engaged in the work of revision when his Master came and called him home. He had reached the first chapter of Joel when he laid down his pen, and said to me, with a smile, ‘ I am going home.’ And, indeed, lie was already almost there. His health had been failing for many months, but he worked on until he could do no more.

“ Though he was naturally very timid, yet in his last days lie feared no evil. 11 is mind was filled with peace, and his heart overflowed with thankfulness. He had forsaken the religion of his fathers for the sake of Christ; his first wife had no sympathy with him in the change, his older children had left him; but he said to me the very last week of his life, ‘I have received a hundred-fold in this life, yea, I have received more than a thousand-fold. From my own blessed experience I can testify that this word of 11 is is true.’

They are not my Saviour

When I spoke to him of the blessed labors in which he had been engaged, he replied, k Yes, but they are not my Saviour; all my works I call only bad; I throw them all away; awav with them, I cannot look at them; on every page I have written I see only sin; for salvation I look to Christ alone, and He is all-sufficient.’ I fell on my knees by his couch and prayed that the sins with which every page of our translations had been stained might be forgiven, and I commended our brother affectionately to that Saviour who had come to take him to His own glorious kingdom.