Before night five or six, who had submitted to the Vartabed, bore to him a written recantation of what they had done; and he, having heard of the firman, received the recantation and was silent.

After that there was comparative peace, and the number attending on the preaching of the missionary increased.
I have dwelt on these developments at Marsovan, as an illustration of what, in various degrees, was experienced in other places at this stage in the reformation; as in Marash, Kessab, Demirdesh, and Adana.
Mr.Wood, of this mission, being detained in the United States by the failure of his wife's health, was elected, in 1852, a Corresponding Secretary of the Board, to reside in the city of New York.

The widow of Dr.Azariah Smith had remained in active labors at Aintab, but disease now obliged her to retire from the field.
Miss Maria A.West took charge, with Mrs.Everett, of the girls' boarding-school at Constantinople; and Miss Melvina Haynes, a sister of Mrs.Everett, gave herself to a species of labor among Armenian females, which has since risen to importance in the missionary field.

Mrs.George B.Nutting died at Aintab, July 9, 1854.
In the Reports of the Prudential Committee to the Board for 1852 and 1853, a hundred important towns and villages are named, into which the reformation had gained entrance.
Pastor Simon, of the first church in Constantinople, spent a summer at Aintab; but his absence was the occasion of serious injury to his own charge; and so it was at Adabazar.

Pastor Hohannes, of that church, with teacher Simon, of Nicomedia, devoted eight months to a missionary tour through Asia Minor.