EBOOK WOMAN AND HER SAVIOUR IN PERSIA ***
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[Illustration: PLAIN OF OROOMIAH, FROM THE SEMINARY AT SEIR.]
WOMAN AND HER SAVIOUR IN PERSIA.
BY
A RETURNED MISSIONARY.
With
Fine Illustrations, and a Map of Nestorian Country.
PREFACE.
Our Saviour bade his disciples gather up the fragments, that nothing
be lost; and many who have known of Miss Fiske's fifteen years of
labor for woman in Persia, have desired her to prepare for
publication the facts now presented to the reader. The writer was
one of these; and it was only when he found that she could not do
it, that he attempted it, in accordance with her wishes, simply that
these interesting records of divine grace might not be lost.
The materials have been drawn from the letters and conversations of
those familiar with the scenes described, and especially from Miss
Fiske. In all cases, the language of others has been condensed, as
much as is consistent, with the truthful expression of their ideas;
and, in the translation of the letters of Nestorians, it has not
been deemed essential to follow slavishly every Syriac idiom, for,
instead of these letters owing their interest, as some have
supposed, to their translators, they may have sometimes rather
suffered from renderings needlessly idiomatic.
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