During the winter the congregation increased to two hundred.

In April, 1855, six were admitted to the church, and not less than four hundred and fifty persons were present.

The accessions were not only from the Armenian and Jacobite Churches, but also from the Catholic Church, though fierce persecution and imprisonment were the consequence.

A large portion of the Jacobite Church were convinced of the truth, and of the emptiness of their own rites and ceremonies.

Some openly avowed that they retained their connection with their old church merely to fight against it, hoping to turn the whole community to Protestantism.