Her case deeply enlisted the sympathies of her fellow-pupils,
and soon several others passed through a season of deep distress,
to rest in the grace of Christ.
One of these was Eneya, sister of Oshana, and now the wife of
Shlemon, in Amadia. Her widowed mother had fled with her children to
Oroomiah before the Koordish invasion of her native Tehoma. Few
children have so deep a sense of sin as she had, or exercise such
implicit trust in the Saviour. At that time, her teacher wrote, "May
she become a messenger of great good to her countrywomen;" and now,
that prayer is being answered in her usefulness in that distant and
lonely field of labor. Altogether there were seven who seemed at
this time to take the Lord Jesus Christ as their God and Saviour.
CHAPTER XII.
FIRST FRUITS.
SARAH, DAUGHTER OF PRIEST ESHOO.--MARTHA.--HANNAH.
Let us now turn aside to take a nearer view of the first fruits of
this revival. The first to ask the way to heaven, to find it, and to
enter through the gate into the city, was Sarah, or Sarra, as the
Nestorians pronounce it. She was born among the rude mountaineers of
Gawar, in 1831.
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