"Yet it is probable," as her husband wrote at the time, "that the heat, so unusually extreme, cutting the leaves from the tree in our court by thousands, and causing many natives of the country to fall dead by the roadside, was the immediate occasion of her death." Mrs.Lobdell found reason, in the necessities of her children, for returning to America, and in April, 1860, she bade adieu to the little band of women, who, for eight years, had sat at her feet to learn of Jesus.

She reached her native land in August, in company with Mr.Marsh.
Mosul remained unoccupied during the summer, the heat at that season being found too great for endurance; though the climate is agreeable for nearly three fourths of the year.

The summer retreat prepared by Dr.Lobdell at Deira, near Amadiah, was distant seventy miles, or four days' travel, and it required at least nine days to reach Mardin.
There were but two or three places in Turkey where missionaries, up to this time, had had such marked success as in Diarbekir.

The church, at the close of 1859, numbered sixty-one, and after the April communion, seventy-three.

Rarely did a communion pass without some additions.