Shall I never see your face again--that face, which bore to
us more than a mother's love? You were a perfect mother, because in
Christ.
"I grieve very much that I did not see you before you left; but I
believe that the seed you have sown will continue to spring up to
the end of the world. You asked me, in your letter, to tell you
about my work. I have a greater work than any of my companions, but
it is in a place covered with thick darkness, like that of Egypt.
The people are stiff-necked, wise to do evil, but of God they have
no knowledge. Temptations surround me as mountains; they rise up
about me like the waves of the sea. While Kamo lived, I was
comforted, for he loved the truth. Every day he used to read the
Scriptures with me, and ask the meaning of each verse. I had hoped
he would have Paul's zeal in the work of the Lord. I had expected
that we should have schools in our village after a year or two, and
that the places of concourse for idle conversation would become
places for reading the Scriptures, and for prayer. But it has
pleased the Lord to give me a great and heavy affliction. He has
smitten me with his own rod, making this world a vale of tears.
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