Its successful beginning in 1862, under the munificent patronage of its founder, and the care of its President, Dr.Hamlin, and Professors Perkins and Henry A.
Schauffler, was a subject for general congratulation.
The unhappy dissensions of the Protestant civil community had in some degree subsided; but the Pera church, maintaining its attitude of disaffection, sought patronage from the English Bishop of Gibraltar, offering to receive Episcopal ordination for the pastor, and to become a "Reformed Armenian church," which should reject the grossest errors of the Armenian Church, while it approximated closely to it in government, worship, and usages.

Inquiries were instituted by the proper ecclesiastical authorities, and encouragement was withheld from the movement.
It is painful to state that Vertanes, so often favorably mentioned in the early history of this mission, and frequently actuated by a zeal which the missionaries judged too ardent, became now disaffected, and it was necessary to dismiss him as a helper.
The Pera church, at the time of writing this history, is in full fellowship with the missionaries and its sister churches.
The Protestant community at Broosa suffered severely in a conflagration, which consumed nearly the whole Armenian quarter of the city.

The neat Protestant church edifice, and the dwelling of the native pastor, happily escaped.
A railway connects Smyrna with Aidin, a city of about fifty thousand inhabitants, eighty miles distant.

A church had been formed there previous to 1865; four persons were added to it in that year, and the brethren were grateful for their native pastor, but desired a missionary who could preach in Greek, as they could reckon up scores of Greeks who seemed ready to receive the truth.
Adana remained unoccupied after Mr.Coffing's death, until March, 1863, when Mr.Goss arrived, and, afterwards, Dr.and Mrs.Goodale.
The native pastor was faithful and intelligent.

Though neither church nor congregation was large, there was an advance in the observance of the Sabbath, also in self-support and general benevolence.