To furnish himself with competent instructors, he made arrangements for a normal school among the Greeks of Galata, a central place in which many children were begging for instruction, and he was evidently encouraged by the smiles of heaven upon his labors.
Not long after, he called upon the Armenian Patriarch, a man of dignified manners and venerable appearance, and asked his cooeperation in establishing schools among his people on an improved plan.

The Patriarch declared, with even more than Oriental politeness, that he loved Mr.Goodell and his country so much, that if Mr.G.had not come to visit him, he must needs have gone to America.

After numerous inquiries, he assented to the introduction of the new system of instruction, and promised to furnish suitable persons to learn it; which promise, however, he failed to remember.
Mr.Dwight joined Mr.Goodell, with his family, on the 5th of June, 1832, intending to devote himself wholly to the Armenians, and to labor for them chiefly through the Armenian language, though he afterwards acquired also the Turkish.

The Rev.William G.Schauffler arrived in the following month, as a missionary to the Jews.
The Armenians at Constantinople were estimated at one hundred thousand.

As a body, they were intelligent, ingenuous, and frank; and many were found who regarded the ritual of their Church as encumbered with burdensome ceremonies, unsustained by the Scriptures, and of no practical advantage.