The people demanded that the Bible should be read in the church in Turkish or Arabic, instead of the ancient Armenian and Syriac, which were, to most of them, dead languages; and the Jacobite bishop was forced to yield.

Finding, at length, that this must rapidly undermine the priestly influence, he secretly removed the Scriptures from the church.

But the word of the Lord was not bound, for the deacons or readers carried their own Bibles.
At the out-station of Haine, Stepan, the native preacher who had come to Diarbekir with Mr.Walker, was enabled by divine grace to maintain his position.

The Pasha at one time ordered him to leave, but he thought it right to disobey.

At a subsequent period, being stoned and beaten in the streets, he was obliged to flee, and the Protestants suffered much oppression.