The Rev.Simeon H.Calhoun, for some time resident at Smyrna as agent of the American Bible Society, received now an appointment as a missionary of the Board; the Rev.Edwin E.Bliss, designated to the mountain Nestorians, having been refused a firman to go thither by the Turkish government, was associated with Mr.
Johnston at Trebizond; and Mr.Schauffler devoted himself to the Jews.

Mr.Homes had the special charge of the book distribution at Constantinople.
1 Afterwards one of the Corresponding Secretaries of the Board.
There being so little to impart peace to a really awakened conscience in either the Roman or the Oriental Churches, individuals were often found wandering to and fro, as in pagan India, vainly seeking for rest.

One of the most noted cases of this kind was that of an Armenian.

To pacify the clamors of conscience, he became an inmate of a monastery far in the interior, where he undertook to perform the most menial services for the monks.

Failing to find peace in this, he penetrated into the depths of a wilderness, clothed himself in sackcloth, and lived on the coarsest fare, away from the abodes of man.