BENEVOLENCE, EARLY MANIFESTATION OF.--PROGRESS.--REVIVAL OF
BENEVOLENCE IN APRIL, 1861.--INTEREST OF PARENTS FOR THE CONVERSION
OF THEIR CHILDEREN.--PEACE IN FAMILIES.--REFORMED MARRIAGES.--
ORDINATIONS.--COMMUNION SEASONS.--MISS RICE AND MISS BEACH.--CONCLUSION.
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_List of Illustrations._
I. PLAIN AND LAKE OF OROOMIAH, AS SEEN FROM ROOF OF SEMINARY AT SEIR
II. MAP OF THE NESTORIAN COUNTRY.
III. FEMALE SEMINARY.
IV. TENTS.
V. MISSIONARY SCENE IN TURGAWER.
VI. COURT YARD OF SEMINARY.
VII. SEIR GATE, OROOMIAH.
VIII. TIARY GIRL.
WOMAN AND HER SAVIOUR.
CHAPTER I.
WOMAN WITHOUT THE GOSPEL.
POLITICAL CONDITION.--NESTORIAN HOUSES.--VERMIN.--SICKNESS.--POSITION
AND ESTIMATION OF WOMAN.--NO READERS AMONG THEM.--UNLOVELY
SPIRIT.--SINS OF THE TONGUE.--PROFANITY.--LYING.--STEALING.--STORY
ABOUT PINS.--IMPURITY.--MOSLEM INTERFERENCE WITH SEMINARY.
We love to wander over a well-kept estate. Its green meadows and
fruitful fields delight the eye. Its ripening harvests make us feel
as if we too were wealthy. But while the view of what lies before us
is so pleasant, our joy is greater if we can remember when it was
all a wilderness, and contrast its present beauty with the roughness
of its former state.
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