Mr.Calhoun having joined the mission, coming from Smyrna, the charge of the new seminary was committed to him.

The Rev.Thomas Laurie arrived from Mosul the same year.
Yakob Agha died in the year 1845.

The evidence he gave of piety had never been wholly satisfactory, but for the last six years he was a communicant in the church.

In this time he appeared to be a changed man, and his missionary brethren hoped that, with all his failings, he was a sincere believer and died in the Lord.
In the spring of this year war broke out afresh between the Druzes and Maronites, and Lebanon was again purged by fire.

It was in no sense a religious war, but a desperate struggle for political ascendency.