Instruction was communicated to large numbers of both men and women, and it was beginning to be regarded as disgraceful for adults of either sex not to be able to read.
The theological school contained twenty-four pupils, of whom eleven were from the vicinity and ten were married men.

The students devoted their winter vacation of four months to preaching and teaching, and in term time they preached at out-stations.
Mrs.Dwight, after twenty-one years of eminently useful service, died at Constantinople in November, 1860.

Dr.Dwight's family being thus broken up, he commenced, with the approval of his brethren, a tour through Syria and Asiatic Turkey, intending to go over much of the ground he had traversed with Dr.Eli Smith in their explorations thirty years before.
How great the changes in the intervening period! Then, for fourteen and a half months, he was unable to receive tidings from his wife, whom he had left in Malta.

Now, from beyond the Euphrates, he could have communicated daily with Constantinople by telegraph.

Then, no fellow-laborers were to be found between Smyrna and the little bands of German and Scotch brethren soon after to be driven away from Russian Armenia and Georgia, and nowhere did they meet among the people any religious sympathies in unison with their own.