Many of the questions asked were of a highly practical nature.

During this visit, a stranger called upon them, whose curiosity had been excited by the Patriarch's letter of warning against the American missionaries.

He, in common with many of his brethren, was anxious to know more about this new way.

Considerable time was spent with him in needful explanations, and with these, and a copy of the New Testament in modern Armenian and several tracts, he departed highly delighted.

It was thus that a knowledge of the Gospel was first carried to Adabazar where this man resided, twenty-seven miles east of Nicomedia.
The papists took advantage of the religious interest awakened in the Armenian Church; and there was reason to apprehend, that dark, dissatisfied minds, if not made acquainted with the Gospel, were in danger of falling into the iron embrace of the Romish Church.