Coan and her
teacher testify to her usefulness, with what humility does she
allude to herself, and "the very little she has made known of the
Lord Jesus Christ."
Extracts from the letters that she kept so long here follow. The
first, to friends in Middlebury, Vermont, is dated September, 1851,
and reads thus:--
"To you, dear friends, I write a letter unworthy and imperfect, in
which I make known to you my lost condition and my present abode.
Know ye that a little more than two years ago I left the Seminary,
and came with my friends to our country. I did not wish to leave so
soon, for I had learned but very imperfectly what the Scriptures
teach about our Lord Jesus Christ. But my mother was not willing I
should remain, for her heart is yet hard and dark. Know, then, dear
sisters in Christ, I dwell in Tiary, in the village of Chumba, about
six days' journey from Oroomiah. Again, though so far away, know ye,
that your letter reached me in May. It was translated and sent to me
by Mr. Perkins, our beloved father, whom we are unworthy to call
such. My dear sisters, when I took your letter in my hands and read,
my heart longed to fly and sit down by you, and behold your faces in
the body; but I said, "The will of the Lord, not mine, be done.
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