He went, and the leading men urged him to preach, which he consented to do.

The news spread through the village, and the congregation almost immediately swelled to two hundred and fifty.

He preached Christ and Him crucified for about an hour, securing most fixed attention, and it is said the women were nearly all moved to tears.
Mr.Walker, the resident missionary at Diarbekir, visited Mosul in 1861, and found the congregation in that city about as it was when the missionaries left.

Subsequently, when visited by Mr.Williams, the Mosul church sent an earnest plea for a missionary to the Prudential Committee.

Mr.Williams was with them three months, married three couples, baptized several children, and admitted one to the church.
Mr.Walker's tour was extended more than a thousand miles, and he found much that was very painful, and yet much that was encouraging, among the Arabic-speaking people in Eastern Turkey.
The church in Diarbekir numbered eighty-four members in 1862, and the pupils in the Sabbath-school were two hundred and eighty-four.
At Cutterbul a house had been built, to be occupied as a place of worship on the Sabbath, and for a school-house during the week, and there were hopeful indications in places near.