The Theological school contained thirty-nine pupils,--twenty-one in the first class, and eighteen in the second.

It occupied the upper story of a substantial building, erected chiefly by the aid of friends in America; while the lower story furnished a neat and well lighted place of worship.

Mr.
Wheeler writes: "Supplied as it is, without expense to the Board, with solar reflectors and two neat pulpit lamps, it is exerting an influence for good in the villages.

Already the people of three villages have covered the black mud walls of their chapels with a neat white plaster, and four villages have each purchased one of the 'wonderful lamps, by the light of which a man can read on the opposite side of the room.' At their own expense they are also furnishing their places of worship with clocks, and are beginning to learn that (to an oriental) very difficult lesson, to be prompt, and to value time." A girls' boarding-school was opened in 1862.
Hadji Hagop, an old and valued helper at this station, went one Sabbath to Hulakegh, an out-station, to preach.

On leaving the Protestant chapel, he met the teacher of the Armenian school with a Bible under his arm, going to the church, where they were to have a "preaching meeting,"-- as was the case in several villages where the mission had congregations, partly in imitation of the mission, and partly to counteract its influence,--and he asked Hagop to go with him.