"If you inquire about my work in the city Sabbath school,--I teach a
class of ten women; three of them, I trust, are Christians. When I
read your letter to them they greatly rejoiced. I reminded them of
the meetings you used to have for them in your room, and their eyes
filled with tears. In the afternoon I went to Charbash, and read
your letter to the eighteen women in my class there. They, too, were
very glad. Five of them, I trust, are Christians. We are now
studying Second Timothy. After the lesson, I question them on Old
Testament history; and then I teach the women and their children to
sing."
CHAPTER XV.
TRIALS.
EVIL INFLUENCE OF HOMES.--OPPOSITION IN DEGALA.--ASKER KHAN.--
POISONING OF SANUM'S CHILDREN.--REDRESS REFUSED.--INQUISITOR IN
SCHOOL.--TROUBLES AT KHOSRAWA.--LETTERS FROM HOIMAR.
But, aside from open persecution, there is a constant danger arising
from the people themselves. The teacher in a Christian land can
never fully understand the feelings of the missionary teacher. The
one sends forth his pupils to meet Christian parents, brothers and
sisters, who, with more than a teacher's love, lead the young
convert by still waters, and establish him in holy feeling; but the
flock of the other goes out often into families where every soul
would gladly break the bruised reed and quench the smoking flax.
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