--YAHYA KHAN.--ANARCHY.--LETTER FROM BABILO.
The Nestorian mission has encountered less opposition than other
missions in Western Asia. Yet here, also, they who would live godly
in Christ Jesus have suffered persecution. On June 19th, 1844, the
brothers of Mar Shimon issued this order: "Be it known to you all,
ye readers at Seir, that if ye do not come to us tomorrow, we will
excommunicate you from our most holy church; your finger nails shall
be torn out; we will hunt you from village to village, and kill you
if we can." Miss Fiske was spending the summer there with her
pupils, and it was not deemed best to provoke further trouble by
retaining them. When told of this, they all wept aloud. Nor did they
weep alone. Their teacher, and the family of Mr. Stocking, in which
they lived, could not restrain their tears. It seemed as if the
girls would never tear themselves away from their teacher; and when
at length they departed, again and again the lamentation arose, "We
shall never hear the word of God again." Miss Fiske laid them at the
feet of Jesus, trusting that he would bring them back to her, and
others with them.
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