In subsequent years, they gladly gave two of their children to the missionary work in Western Asia.

Miss Rebecca W.
Williams arrived this year as a teacher; and in the next year the Rev.Messrs.Story Hebard and John F.Lanneau, and Miss Betsey Tilden.

In 1835, Mr.William M.Thomson was married to Mrs.Abbott, the widow of the late English Consul, who, from an early period in the mission, had given decisive evidence of attachment to the kingdom of Christ.
The high school, commenced in 1835, took a more substantial form in the following year.

It was wisely decided, that the pupils should lodge, eat, and dress in the style of the country; and the annual expenses of each scholar for boarding, clothing, etc., was only from thirty-five to forty dollars.

The course of study embraced the Arabic language for the whole period, the English language, geography and astronomy, civil and ecclesiastical history, with chronology, mathematics, rhetoric,--in the Arab sense, a popular study,--natural and moral philosophy, composition and translation, natural theology, and sacred music.