The increased price of the cotton grown on its magnificent plain, as the result of the war in America, had given an extraordinary impulse to the business of the place, and to the spirit of commerce.

There was much to encourage hope in respect to this important station.
Dr.Nutting, being transferred from the Eastern to the Central mission, was stationed at Oorfa, where his brother was laboring; Mr.
and Mrs.Montgomery were added to the Central mission; but the return home of Mr.and Mrs.White and of Dr.and Mrs.Goodale, by reason of a failure of health, made the number of missionaries in that field less than it had been the year before.
Yet such was the advance in Aintab, that the mission resolved, at its annual meeting in 1864, that there was no longer a call for the residence of a missionary in that city.

The church had increased to three hundred and fifty members, and had two native pastors, both of decided ability, sound judgment, harmonious views, and deep-toned piety; and it was thought that the proper development of the pastoral relation, and the most economical disposal of missionary strength, would be promoted by leaving the station to native cultivation, with occasional visits of missionaries.

As, however, a second church was to be formed, and a new house of worship to be built, mainly with funds from England placed under Dr.Schneider's direction, the mission approved of his remaining there till these things were done, when he was to go--as he has since gone--to another field, where he might hope, with his uncommon power as a preacher in the Turkish language, to reap a harvest like that which had resulted in the truly wonderful ingathering of souls at Aintab.
The division of the church took place in the following year.

When the time had fully come for it, the senior pastor proposed that each head of a family choose between them.