Such an opportunity as you now enjoy may soon pass away, and never more return.

You should greatly enlarge your operations.

Where you have one missionary, you should have ten; and where you have one book, you should put ten in circulation." Constantinople, Smyrna, Broosa, Trebizond, Erzroom, and Aintab, were already occupied as stations.

It was proposed at once to occupy Sivas, Arabkir, Diarbekir, and Aleppo.

Mr.Adger, after a laborious and most useful service in the literary department of the mission, was constrained, by his health, in 1847, to retire from the field.
The statement of Lord Stratford, that three years were allowed to pass before the Sultan's firman was transmitted to the provinces, will account in part for the fact that persecution did not cease.