One of these, named Sarkis Agha, became a very active and useful Christian.

Feeling that he had been a stumbling-block to others, he lost no time in going to the market, and inviting twelve or fifteen of his most intimate friends, all men of influence, to his place of business, and telling them of his change of feeling.

He expected only ridicule, but the majority were affected to tears, and requested him to read the Bible and pray with and for them.
[1] An interesting account of this revival, by Miss Maria A.West, may be found in the _Missionary Herald_ for 1867, pp.

139-142.
It was winter, and the travelling was very bad, so that they could not reach the more distant out-stations; but the members of the church visited the principal ones on the plain.

Among these was Hooeli, about ten miles distant, where Mr.Barnum spent two days.
The whole congregation appeared to be interested, prayer-meetings, morning and evening, were attended by from a hundred and twenty to two hundred persons; and through the entire day, till nearly midnight, the room of the missionary was thronged with inquirers.