Among the works in process of publication was D'Aubigne's "History of the Reformation." The persecuting Matteos had now finished his career as Patriarch.
Before the close of 1848, he was convicted of frauds upon the public treasury, and of forgery, and was degraded, and passed into retirement on the shores of the Bosphorus.[1] [1] _Missionary Herald_, 1849, p.

42; _Report_, 1849, p.

115.
Three additional pastors were ordained during the year which closed with May, 1849; Baron Mugurdich, at Trebizond, Baron Hohannes Sahakian, at Adabazar, and Baron Avedis, as co-pastor at Constantinople.

The reader is aware that Hohannes received the greater part of his education in the United States.

He possessed a delightful spirit, and developed far more talent than he was commonly credited with in America, where he could communicate his thoughts only through the medium of a strange language.
The mission suffered a painful bereavement on the 14th of November, 1850, in the death of Mrs.Hamlin, at Rhodes, whither she had gone with her husband in the hope of relief.[1] [1] See an account of her last sickness in _Missionary Herald_, for 1851, p.