Wadāʻ Yūnus Kīn ilá aḥbābihi fī Filasṭīn wa-Sūriyā. -- 1825.

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Wadāʻ Yūnus Kīn ilá aḥbābihi fī Filasṭīn wa-Sūriyā. -- 1825.

Farewell letter to his friends in Palestine and Syria, setting forth the principles of his faith and his objections to Roman Catholicism. Presumably author's holograph, written in 1825.

4 leaves ; 25 x 21 cm.

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King, Jonas, 1792-1869

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Jonas King (1792-1869) was born near Hawley, Mass., the son of strict Puritan parents. He graduated from Williams College in 1816 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1819, and then spent six months at a mission in Charleston, S.C., where he was ordained as an evangelist. In the early 1820s, King studied Arabic under De Sacy in Paris where he apparently became involved with Sampson Vryling Stoddard Wilder (1780-1865) and the Paris Missionary Society. Following three years of missionary work in Pa...