There was also much other secular labor for the brethren at this central station.
Difficulties in the church at Trebizond occasioned the calling of an ecclesiastical council,--the first one convened in the Turkish empire.

Pastor Simon was present from the first church in Constantinople, pastor Hohannes from Adabazar, and Mr.Dwight from the mission.

Pastor Hohannes was chosen moderator, and pastor Simon scribe; and Mr.Dwight describes them as managing the case with admirable tact and prudence.

The results were satisfactory.
Marsovan began now to claim special attention.

It stands in one corner of a lovely plain hemmed in by mountains, and then contained eight hundred Armenian houses, with twice that number of Turkish families.