Mr.Holliday found the encouragement to labor quite as great as had been represented by the brethren first in the field.
The extreme poverty of the Nestorians had the same effect on the first missionaries, that like causes have had in some other portions of the unevangelized world.

It caused the whole expense of schools and of the agency employed to be thrown upon the Christian public at home.

The board of the fifty scholars in the seminary was paid by the mission, and people in the villages thought they could not afford to send their children to the village schools, unless each of them was paid two or three cents a day to buy their bread.

They said their children could earn as much by weeding the cotton, or driving the oxen; and the brethren naturally rejoiced in being able to afford this aid.

Among the students of the seminary at this time, were two bishops, three priests, and four deacons, who of course were adults.