' We left her looking after us, and wiping away her
tears, till we were out of sight.
"We went that day to the village of the other two. As soon as
Heleneh saw us, she began to weep, thinking of the past. Sarah we
did not see; she was in another village, very anxious to come, but
her wicked husband, whom she had been forced to marry, would not
permit it. We spent the night with Heleneh, and preached to a large
company. Next morning we left, and she too, with tears, begged that
all her friends in Oroomiah would remember her in their prayers."
Was Sarah prevented from seeing her Christian friends, that God
might show hereafter how, without even that help, he could answer
the prayers of others for her, and her own?
The next we hear of them is through Mr. Coan, who visited Tiary in
August, 1851. The writer can understand his account of crossing the
Zab, as the bridge was in the same condition when he crossed it with
the late Dr. Azariah Smith, August 31st, 1844. But hear Mr. Coan:--
"A toilsome day, over the roughest of roads, brought us opposite
Chumba. The bridge had been swept away, and fording such a torrent
was impossible.
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