He was specially impressed by the childlike piety of the venerable Mar Elias.
Mr.Breath, the ingenious and efficient missionary printer, died of cholera on the 10th of November, 1861.

He had so far succeeded in training native printers and book-binders, that there was no further call for such workmen from the United States.

Mrs.Breath returned home, with her three children, in the following year.
Some uneasiness was created about this time by rumors, that priests of the Russian Church were coming to Oroomiah to proselyte Nestorians.

They did not come; but emissaries were sent by them secretly, who made large promises, that deceived many; yet the evangelical party, with two or three exceptions, kept aloof from the affair.

The proposal was that the Nestorians should renounce their religion, and receive the seven sacraments of the Greek Church; the inducements held out being such as the payment of their taxes for some years, and salaries to all ecclesiastics and head men of the villages.