Eight of these had been licensed as preachers of the Gospel, and nearly all the rest were employed at out-stations, as catechists and teachers.

Some were expecting to be soon ordained as pastors.

The demand for additional laborers was urgent, because of the very general increase in the size, as well as number, of the congregations.
Social meetings for the study of the Scriptures were found to be so influential for good in the Harpoot district, that the Armenian ecclesiastics of the Old Church sought to counteract their influence by the same expedient; but the result disappointed their hopes.

In Malatia, they appointed a meeting for such readings every evening in the week, in each of the twenty-four wards of their part of the city.

Their intention was to have the Scriptures and the church books read in the ancient language; but the people insisted on having the Bible alone read, and read in the spoken language.