I do not believe your
thoughts can ever rest about your little company of Nestorians. If a
mother leaves a nursing child, she cannot rest till she returns to
it. If you are far from us in body, I know your spirit is with us.
If Jonah mourned over the gourd for which he had not labored, how
shall not you mourn after those for whom you have labored?
"If the breezes did not bring the cry of 'Salvation' over the ocean,
our desolations would cry out. But thanks to Him who favors those
that leave their native land to labor among the ignorant. Yet what
shall this people do? The beast having great iron teeth still reigns
here; but it may be the Lord will speedily destroy him with the
breath of his mouth. I trust that you will ever remember in your
prayers one who will remember you in her weakness till death."
Two years later brought the following, with its graphic delineation
of the trials that such as choose the better part may meet with yet
for years to come:--
BELOVED MISS FISKE: Almost every day of this summer has been a
bitter day. For my mother had become willing to give Raheel (Rachel,
sister of Hoimar) to the Papists, and she had prevailed over my
father to do the same.
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