What a change since the arrival of Mr.Dunmore among that people in the year 1851.

Mr.
Walker thus describes his reception: "When two or three hours distant from the city, we began to be met by companies on horseback; and farther on by those on slower mules and donkeys, and as we neared the city, a great company of men, women, and children gave us their hearty 'Hoshgelden' (word of welcome); and the children of one of the schools stood in line by the side of the road and sung theirs.

Thus we were escorted by two hundred or more, through the gates of the city, and to our own home, which was swept and garnished for our coming." The church, during a part of Mr.Walker's absence, had been without the services of its native pastor, he being at Constantinople; but one of their own number, who had been educated at the Harpoot Seminary, was engaged to supply the pulpit, and not a service had been omitted.

The Sabbath-school never fell below one hundred and forty.

Divine goodness spared the lives of the Protestants, with a single exception, while fifteen hundred persons were dying in the city of the cholera.