There were four services on the Sabbath.

At the first, an hour after sunrise, fifty persons assembled for prayer and praise, and the meeting was conducted by two native teachers; one reading his own translation of Doddridge's "Rise and Progress" in Turkish; the other, after having read through Dr.Goodell's "Notes on Matthew," and a volume of his sermons in Turkish, had commenced reading discourses of his own.

The second was at the time of "noon cry" from the minarets, when Mr.Walker or Baron Tomas, now returned for a time from Bebek, preached to about two hundred persons, who listened more attentively than most American congregations.

At the ninth hour (three o'clock in the afternoon) Baron Tomas met a Bible-class of sixty or eighty of the more intelligent Protestants.

The last preaching service, at the tenth hour, was usually attended by a hundred or a hundred and fifty persons.