As our joy is not full in your absence, may you not rest
till you return.
"We are now in Vizierawa of Gawar; for the people of Ishtazin,
instigated by Mar Shimon, have cast us out. I had hoped to go to
Amadia, but was robbed and wounded, in the autumn, by the Koords;
and before I could recover my goods, it was too late to go so far.
So I remain here; and, thanks to God, our labor in the gospel is
more pleasant than ever. Some of the men wish to hear the whole will
of God; and women and girls come to Guly to hear his words. A few
children also are constant in learning to read. The work of God
prospers this year in Gawar, and the laborers are more numerous and
more faithful."
In estimating the zeal and self-denial of these Nestorian
missionaries, it should be borne in mind that our missionaries
there, think it requires as much self-denial for a native of
Oroomiah to go to the mountains, as for an American to go to
Oroomiah; and according to the testimony of a native observer, the
married graduates of the Seminary, in the mountains, are centres of
light in that great sea of darkness.
Besides those already mentioned, Oshana and Sarah, with Shlemon and
Eneya, are laboring in Amadia.
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