Many must have come from mere curiosity, but the missionary never preached with greater certainty that he had the sympathies of his audience.
In the following July, events showed that the new influences had in some way reached all classes of Armenians in the metropolis.

An aged Protestant died and his body was borne by his friends to an Armenian cemetery, which hitherto had been open to all bearing the Christian name.

Now, however, a mob, composed of the very lowest class of Armenians, seized the coffin, and forcibly carried it out of the burying-ground, where it remained four days.

The mob increased to thousands, and kept possession of the ground day and night.

The American and English Ambassadors were at length roused, and remonstrated with the Porte and the Patriarch.