The story of the entrance of the Gospel into this place is so interesting that it deserves to be recorded.

Pastor Simon visited it in September, 1851, on his return from the council at Trebizond, and learned that, eighteen years before, a respectable inhabitant made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and bought in Beirut a few Armeno-Turkish tracts, not knowing what they were, only that they were written in his own native tongue.

He read them carefully on his way home, and liked them so well that he retained them; but not until Protestants and Protestant books were anathematized in the churches did he learn their origin.

They had been printed in Malta under the supervision of Mr.Goodell.Soon after this, Der Vartanes, on a missionary tour through Armenia, spent a night at the convent in Marsovan.

This man was present in the evening, and recognized the similarity between the teachings of the stranger and his favorite tracts, but did not dare to speak out before the Vartabed.