Dr.Schneider believed that half the Armenians in the city were convinced of the truth.
The first evangelical church in Turkey, composed of Greeks, was organized by the Union of Bithynia at Demirdesh, in November, 1867.
Mr.Kalopothakes was present from Athens.

The church was composed exclusively of evangelical Greeks, and six of its thirteen members were women.

Pastor Hohannes of Bilijik, on behalf of the Union, welcomed them to the fellowship of the churches; which he said had been lost through the departure of the Greeks and Armenians from the gospel, but was now recovered.

The preacher was a Greek, and a native of the place.[1] [1] The members of the church formed at Hasbeiya in 1851 (p.

376 of vol.1st) were seceders from the Greek Church, but were regarded by the Syrian mission as of the Arab race.
The mission was sorely afflicted in September by the sudden death of Mr.Walker of Diarbekir.