The Saviour’s kingdom, writes John Yeardley, in allusion to this conversation, is spreading, and many instruments are being raised up in various nations to help forward the great work.  The kingdom of Satan is in danger; he sees it, and stirs up the jealousy of men, setting them against one another, and, by their seeking through party-spirit to exalt their own particular religion, hindering the Lord’s work.  Into whatever nation the beams of the Sun of Righteousness shine, the inhabitants begin to inquire the way to Zion, and turn their faces thitherward.  This alarms the rulers whose kingdom is of this world.

From Odessa to Constantinople they had a quick and safe passage.  At Constantinople John Yeardley was deeply interested in the institutions which the American missionaries have founded for the religious and temporal improvement of the Armenians.  He visited two of these, the high school at Bebek and the girls’ seminary at Has-keui, both beautifully situated on the shores of the Bosphorus.  In the former they found forty-eight young men,—­sixteen Greek and thirty-two Armenian.  The industrial part of the education was particularly gratifying to him.

Cyrus Hamlin, he says, who has the superintendence of their studies and labor, is wonderfully adapted for his vocation.  He is assisted only by native teachers.  The young men looked serious:  some of their countenances were peculiarly impressive, indicating that they had been with Jesus.  I saw them assembled in the school-room, and addressed them for some time; and C. Hamlin most willingly interpreted into Armenian what I said.  It was a sweet and memorable time.  The Armenian teacher would scarcely let go my hand after the meeting, he had been so touched with the power of divine love.  In the girls’ boarding-school we found twenty-five girls, all Armenians, with the exception of two or three Greeks.  It was a lovely sight to see so many of this class under a course of religious and useful instruction.  Many of the countenances were marked and pleasing, and were fixed on me with great apparent seriousness while I addressed them, along with some of the neighbors.——­Everett (the conductor of the school) kindly and most willingly interpreted what I had to communicate.  He and his wife have also a day-school for boys and girls.  I consider these institutions as bright and hopeful spots in the East, from which much good may arise.

The persevering and well-directed efforts of the American missionaries for the evangelization of the Armenians, and the field of Christian labor which was thus opened, took firm hold of J.Y.’s mind; he longed to visit the schools and congregations in Isnik and Brusa, and probably only abandoned the journey at this time in the hope of undertaking it at some future day.  John Yeardley describes Constantinople as—­