This was seven years after the commencement of his mission in Greece.

Mr.Bird was there, on his way from Syria to his native land, and wrote, on hearing Mr.
King preach and seeing the apparent effect, that he became quite reconciled to his laboring among the Greeks, rather than the Arabs.
In the same year Boghos, vicar of the Patriarch, encouraged by certain bankers, resolved to break up the mission High School for Armenians in Pera, of which Hohannes was the principal.

In preparation for this, a College had been built at Scutari, some months before, on an extended scale; and the public school in Has Keuy, superintended by Kevork, had been committed to the general supervision of one of the great bankers residing there, that it might be remodeled according to his own wishes, and made a first-rate school.

This was deemed a needful preliminary to shutting up the mission High School.

Early in the year, the parents were summoned before the vicar, and ordered to withdraw their sons from that school.