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“CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO THE REV. JONAS KING," PRINTED BY ORDER OF CONGRESS, PAGES 81, 82, AND 108-118.— "Thirty-third Congress, Second Session."-" Ex. Doc. No. 67."

SUBSTANCE of the complaint of the Synod of Greece, and motion of the Attorney-General thereon, before the Court of Correctional Police, that a true bill be found against Dr. King:

"The holy Synod of the Kingdom of Greece being informed that the American missionary, Jonas King, here resident, having returned from Europe, (where he had taken refuge, flying from this place on account of the het

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erodox teaching and proselytism he had practised, and of the criminal prosecution which he was about to undergo, by virtue of the law,) has again begun to persevere in teaching publicly, in his house, dogmas, principles, and opinions altogether repugnant to the grounds of our holy religion, and which fatally assail the mysteries, the rites, and the customs of the orthodox Oriental Church of Christ, has, in due form, complained against him, and prayed his prosecution and punishment, for that his behavior here in Athens is become scandalous, and so forth.

"The complaint aforesaid, and divers other written papers from the holy Synod, the ministry of religion and instruction, and the administrative

police of Athens and the Piræus, all touching the said heterodox teaching of the aforesaid American missionary, Jonas King, coming to the knowledge of the Attorney-General, it was ordered, that a regular inquest be had, from the result whereof it appears:

"That the said Jonas King, an American missionary, being here at Athens, does continue, from the year past, hitherto, to teach, in his own private house, publicly, and in the hearing of all such as come thither, and to discourse concerning religious opinions, uttering, to the scandal of hearers, opinions, principles, and sentiments repugnant to the grounds of our holy religion, and of the orthodox Oriental Church of Christ, and having a pernicious influence thereon, inveighing against the

orthodox Greeks, for that they worship the Deity in an erroneous manner, and mocking and blaspheming the dogmas of our immaculate faith, and the traditions, and the customs, and whatsoever is honorable and revered in our orthodox Church, as that of transubstantiation, and so forth, wrongly expounding the divine and holy Scriptures, and reviling its mysteries, and its rites, that of divine baptism, and others; and particularly he characterizes as idolatry the worship (or adoration) of our most holy mother of God, and ever-virgin Mary, and of the saints, regarding the first as not ever-virgin and mother of God, and the others as mere men. In like manner he calls the holy fathers of the Church heretics and idolaters, and does not receive the sacred Councils,

and the things ordained by them in matters of religion, and delivered by tradition to the later orthodox Christians; and by reason of this, his heterodox teachings, he is become a scandal in Athens, provoking a riot in his house, on a certain day, at the hour of his teaching.

"But as to proselytism effected by the same, there appeared indeed, from the inquest, to be some proofs of it; but they were not sufficient, for the present, to establish a charge against him. The accused being interrogated, and defending himself, did not deny the teaching he practises, but affirmed, that he teaches rightly whatever he thinks and believes as such.

"But inasmuch as the punishable act of heterodox preaching now under