Nine of the students in the seminary were church-members, and others gave evidence of piety.
The growth of the Armenian Mission, along with its great extent, of territory, required a division for the more convenient administration of its affairs.

Hence a Southern Armenian Mission was organized in November, 1856, having the Taurus for its boundary on the north, and embracing the stations of Aintab, Marash, Antioch, Aleppo, and Oorfa.

Its printing was to be done at Constantinople.
The members of this mission were Messrs.

Schneider, Pratt, Beebee, Perkins, Morgan, Nutting, Cotting, and White.

The field of the Northern Mission extended from the Balkans in European Turkey to the eastern waters of the Euphrates.
The "Turkish Missions Aid Society" was formed in England in 1854; "not to originate a new mission, but to aid the existing evangelical missions in the Turkish empire, especially American." The funds contributed to the American missions were given expressly for a Native Agency; and important aid has thus been rendered down to the present time.