A school for girls, taught by the wife of the helper, was broken up by the violence of Armenian ecclesiastics.

The missionaries appealed to the Pasha, and to Mr.Dalzell, the friendly British Consul at Erzroom.

The result was that the priests commenced a free school for boys and girls, and also a preaching service, hoping thus to deter the people from becoming Protestants.

The Porte had given orders that the Protestants in every city should have a suitable cemetery, but every effort to secure one at Bitlis had been without success.
Dr.Dwight was much interested in this city.

Its population was thirty thousand, and one third were Armenians; the rest were Koords and Turks, and there were hundreds of villages within the district.
The place was proverbial for salubrity, and he saw enough to convince him that the leaven of the Gospel was working powerfully among the people.