Mr.Wheeler visited Geghi in the summer of 1858 and found the truth much opposed, but taking a firm hold among the sixteen hundred Armenians of the place.

He was touched by their earnest entreaties to remain with them a few mouths; or if that might not be, that he would leave his native helper till some one else could come among them.

As with the Apostle Paul at Troas, the eagerness of the people to hear led him to protract his labors on one occasion, till an hour and a half past midnight, and on another till the breaking day.
The year 1859 was signalized by a revival in the Bebek Seminary.

At its commencement, nearly half the students were regarded as hopefully pious, and these all seemed at once to have new views of spiritual things.

The Holy Spirit not only revived the graces of such, but put forth a converting power.