Mr.and Mrs.Keyes, in consequence of a failure of health, returned to the United States.
The seminary was now revived, not at Beirut, but at Abeih, fifteen hundred feet above the sea-level, in a temperate atmosphere, and with a magnificent prospect of land and sea.

The experience gained in the former seminary was of use in reconstructing the new one.

Its primary object was to train up an efficient native ministry.

None were to be received to its charity foundation, except such as had promising talents and were believed to be truly pious.

The education was to be essentially Arabic, the clothing, boarding, and lodging strictly in the native style, and the students were to be kept as far as possible in sympathy with their own people.
A chapel for public worship was fitted up, and here, as also at Beirut, there was preaching every Sabbath in the Arabic language, with an interesting Sabbath-school between the services.