Nearly all the older students seemed ready to take their stand on the Bible, and did not fear the name of Protestant.

The girls' school numbered about thirty pupils, whose progress in study had been gratifying, and there had often been deep feeling under religious instruction.

Members of the common council of the town, and others who witnessed an examination of the school, sent to Mr.Byington a letter of thanks, and assured him that the missionaries would yet be recognized by the Bulgarians as benefactors of their nation.
The people could not, as yet, be drawn, in any numbers, to attend the regular religious services of the missionaries.

They were banded together against receiving spiritual truth.

Still something could be done by personal conversations and the circulation of books and tracts.