In July of the same year, a series of articles appeared in a leading newspaper of Athens called the "Age," designed to excite the prejudices of the Greeks against our missionary, and to urge them to put a stop to the scandal of his preaching.

The last and most extraordinary of these was avowedly from Simonides, and was fitted to produce an excitement in the Greek community.

Its statements were improbable in the highest degree, and there could not have been a more affecting proof of the superstition and bigotry of the people of Athens, than the general credence given to this gross fabrication.
The article was called "The Orgies," and was under the headings of "Mystery of Marriage," and "Mystery of Baptism;" and a translation of it may be found in the "Missionary Herald" for 1847.1 1 See _Missionary Herald_ for 1847, pp.

366-368.
It was subsequently ascertained, that Simonides was materially aided by two priests; who were elevated, not long after, one to an archdeaconry, the other to an archbishopric, under the "Great Church" at Constantinople.

What immediately followed, will be described by Dr.King himself.
"While reading the article in my family, the Governor of Attica, Mr.
Soutzos, came in and desired to speak with me alone.