Through the energetic efforts of the Consul at Diarbekir, the persecuting governor was deposed, and another appointed.
Across the river from Diarbekir is Cutterbul, a large Christian village, where were twenty Protestants, with several church-members; and the missionary, in his occasional visits, gathered almost as large a congregation as the one at Mosul.

The preaching would have been acceptable in Turkish, or Koordish, though the people preferred the Arabic.

Cutterbul was but a sample of what the villages on all sides of Diarbekir might have been, were the station fully manned.
The Protestants at Mosul obtained no relief from their oppressive taxes until January, 1854; when, through the efforts of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, a firman was addressed to the Pasha for their protection.

The Pasha then ordered an equitable rate to be made for them, which encouraged the Protestants, and disheartened their enemies.

The year was one of progress.