CHAPTER IX.
FRUITS OF LABOR IN NESTORIAN HOMES.
USEFULNESS AMONG RELATIVES OF PUPILS.--DEACON GUWERGIS.--REFORMED
DRUNKARD AND HIS DAUGHTER.--MATERNAL MEETINGS.---EARLY INQUIRERS
FROM GEOG TAPA.--PARTING ADDRESS OF MR. HOLLADAY.--VISIT TO GEOG
TAPA.--SELBY AND HER CLOSET.
Having thus glanced at early labors for women in the Seminary and in
the villages, let us now turn to another field of usefulness among
the relatives of the pupils, who came to visit them in school; and
here we are at no loss for a notable illustration.
In the autumn of 1845, Deacon Guwergis, of Tergawer,--and almost
every reader was either priest or deacon,--brought his oldest
daughter, then about twelve years of age, and begged for her
admission to the Seminary. He was known as one of the vilest and
most defiantly dissolute of the Nestorians, and Miss Fiske shrunk
from receiving the daughter of such a man into her flock. Yet, on
the ground that, like her Master, she was sent not to the righteous,
but to the lost, she concluded to receive her. Still the father,
during his short stay, showed such a spirit of avarice and shameless
selfishness,--he even asked for the clothes his daughter had on when
she came,--that she rejoiced when he went away.
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