A great work of exploration had been performed.

So far as knowledge of the field was concerned, many a valley had been exalted, many a hill brought low.

This was indeed preliminary work, but it was indispensable, and was no small share of what is involved in the conquest of the country for Christ.

The seven missionaries then in the field had more than fifty Nestorian fellow-laborers in the gospel ministry, graduates of their seminary, and the nine female missionaries rejoiced in scores of pious young women from their seminary, abroad as wives, mothers, and teachers, doing a work perhaps not second in importance to that of the pious graduates of the other school.

Nor should we overlook the reduction of the spoken language to writing, the translation of the Holy Scriptures into it, and the multiplication of books to the extent of seventy-nine thousand three hundred volumes, and more than sixteen millions of pages.