Among the reasons assigned for this were the burdensome taxes imposed upon the people, and especially on boys at the early age of twelve years, and the general poverty of the parents, constraining them to employ their sons on their farms, or in their oil-mills or wine-presses.
Considering that not a place had yet been found, which was salubrious all the year round, and that the people were scattered in eight or nine villages, the missionaries began to despair of a vigorous concentration of their labors, and came to the conclusion, in the year 1837, that it was expedient to go to some more manageable field.

The opposition from Constantinople made it expedient to disconnect the schools from the mission.

There was, however, from the beginning, a friendly intercourse between the people, including the ecclesiastics, and the missionaries and books and tracts were received without hesitation.

This with other considerations induced the missionaries to delay their departure.
The funeral of a child of Mr.Pease was attended in one of the Greek churches, and the Greek priests led the way in the procession, chanting the funeral dirge, in which there was nothing exceptionable; leaving at home, out of deference to the father, the cross, the cherubim, and the incense.
In August, 1839, in consequence of remaining too long at Larnica, Mr.Pease was suddenly prostrated by fever, and soon closed his earthly career, at the early age of twenty-nine.

He had made great proficiency in the modern Greek language, and looked forward with delight to its use in proclaiming the Gospel to the Greek people.
Every month had raised him in the estimation of his brethren, and given new promise of his usefulness.