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Excerpt from Forty Years in the Turkish Empire: Or, Memoirs of Rev. William Goodell, D.D., Late Missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. At Constantinople His residence and labors at Constantinople covered the entire period marked by that movement known as the Protestant Reformation in Turkey. Being the first missionary on the ground; having been instru mental in establishing numerous schools for the vari ous classes of the population; having translated the whole word of God out of the original tongues into the language of a large part of the people and hav ing preached the gospel daily at the capital, and up and down the Bosphorus at the various suburbs, he was one of the chosen instruments of that reforma tion during all its progress. On this account no inconsiderable portion of the volume is devoted to a record of this remarkable movement, which forms one of the most interesting chapters in the annals of Christian missions. This record is here necessarily confined to the work as immediately connected with the labors of Dr. Goodell. 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.
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He was born on November 2, 1814 at Cambridge, Washington County, New York, United States, the fourth child and third son of the Rev. Nathaniel Scudder and Julia Ann (Jermain) Prime. He was the grandson of Benjamin Youngs Prime and a lineal descendant of James Prime, who emigrated from England to Milford, Connecticut, in 1644.
Graduating from Washington Academy at Cambridge, of which his father was principal, he entered Union College at the age of fourteen and received his degree with high honors in 1832.
He began the study of medicine in 1834, but soon decided to enter Princeton Theological Seminary. He completed the three-year course there in 1838.
From 1833 he spent three years at Sing Sing on the Hudson (now Ossining) as assistant to his father, then head of the Mount Pleasant Academy.
In 1838 he was called to the Presbyterian Church of Scotchtown, New York, as assistant, and was ordained on June 12 of the following year. In 1847 he became pastor of the Scotchtown church, and held the position until 1851, though during the preceding winter tuberculosis forced him to seek the warmer climate of New Orleans, where he supplied the Lafayette Square Church. The next winter Prime spent in Augusta, Georgia, but in the spring returned to New York and took charge of the Eighty-sixth Street Presbyterian Church for a year.
While his brother, Samuel I. was traveling abroad in 1853, Edward took his place as editor of the New York Observer. He had long been a contributor under the signature "Eusebius, " and after his brother's return continued as associate editor.
The winter of 1854-55 he spent as chaplain of the United States diplomatic mission in Rome and in European travel. A few years later he published a life of his father-in-law, which is based largely on the latter's diaries and letters, Forty Years in the Turkish Empire: or Memoirs of Rev. William Goodell, D. D. , Late Missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. at Constantinople (1876).
In 1869 recurring ill health again made imperative a year of vacation, which he and his wife spent on the journey commemorated in his book Around the World: Sketches of Travel Through Many Lands and Over Many Seas (1872), and in numerous articles printed in the Observer. After crossing the United States to San Francisco, he visited Japan, China, India, and the Mediterranean lands, studying as he went religious conditions and the problems of evangelical missionary work, of which he had become an ardent supporter.
After the death of Samuel I. in 1885, he assumed the chief editorship of the Observer, but his ebbing strength was unequal to the task, from which he finally retired in the following year.
He died at his home in New York City.
Edward Dorr Griffin Prime was a substitute editor of the New York Observer, while his famous brother Samuel Irenæus Prime, was in Europe. He made a journey round the world to study religious conditions in Eastern countries. He was the author of such famous works as: Around the World, Civil and Religious Liberty in Turkey, Forty Years in the Turkish Empire; or Memoirs of Rev. William Goodell.
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He was a man of sound judgment and information who wrote with ease and force.
On September 26, 1839, he married Maria Darlington, daughter of John S. Wilson of Princeton. His wife died of cholera on a Mississippi steamer.
On June 14, 1860, he married Abbie Davis Goodell, daughter of the pioneer American missionary in Constantinople. He had no children.
