At the monthly concert in March, kept as a day of fasting and prayer, and closed with the Lord's Supper, sixteen persons were present, who were all regarded as hopefully pious.

They were from America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and were members of nine churches,--Congregational, Episcopal, Lutheran, Reformed Lutheran, Moravian, Latin, Armenian, Greek Catholic, and Abyssinian.

Dionysius Carabet, Gregory Wortabet, and their wives were then received into the mission church, as was also the wife of Mr.Abbott, the English Consul, a native of Italy.
This admission of converts into a church, without regard to their previous ecclesiastical relations, was a practical ignoring of the old church organizations in that region.

It was so understood, and the spirit of opposition and persecution was roused to the utmost.
In the Maronite and Greek Catholic churches, severe denunciations were uttered against the missionaries, and all who should render them any service.
Messrs.

Goodell and Bird gave more or less time, with the help of their native assistants, to preparing useful works in the native languages.