Having given an account of these two interesting occasions, let us
now look in on another equally interesting, though of a different
kind, that took place in Oroomiah, three years later. During the
interval, Mr. Stoddard had entered into rest; and his bereaved
widow, Dr. Perkins and family, and Miss Fiske, were about to sit
down together, perhaps for the last time, with the Nestorian
converts, at the table of the Lord.
It was in May, and the day one of the finest of those charming May
days in Oroomiah. The most of the Nestorians who had been admitted
to the communion were present; and in distributing the guests among
the mission families, it was understood that all who had been
connected with the Seminary should go there. The object of this was,
to gather all the scattered members of the family together once more
in the place where prayer had been wont to be made, before they went
to the Lord's table. As yet, no one knew that their teacher was
about to leave them; for she did not wish any thing else to turn
away their thoughts from Jesus. When they had assembled in the
school room, she could not say much, but besought the Lord Jesus to
be the Master of the assembly.
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