On Saturdays they met and had prayers, singing, and the reading of a tract; and the next day they went out, two and two, to the houses of such Armenians as did not come to the Protestant place of worship, and asked the privilege of reading from the New Testament.

Being children, they often found a hearing where older persons could not.

A boys' missionary society in Diarbekir bore the expense of a scripture reader in a large Armenian village nine miles distant.

A like association of men paid seven eighths of the salary of a helper in another village.

Subsequently, a door being found open in an unhopeful village near the city, the native brethren hired a house, and each Sabbath sent one of their own number to spend the day as a scripture reader.