A poor man, who
has a few fruit trees in his yard, promised ten heptas of apricots.
Guwergis spoke up, 'We have butter: what shall we cook in it for the
bride?' A woman answered, 'I give four heptas of rice;' to which her
husband added two.
[Footnote 1: See page 209.]
"Mar Elias now kissed us much; he put nineteen korans into John's
hand, saying, 'As yet I have not grown indifferent.' And Mar Yohanan
said, with tears, 'The crown of the bride remains for me. I give
thirty tomans.'
"In our village, besides the tithes, seventy tomans were collected,
and in the city two hundred and fifty. I hope the whole will go up
to five hundred or more. I stand amazed. I can think nothing but, 'I
am a miserable sinner.' The glorious God has gone before us in
mercy. For two or three years our village was going down; we were at
variance and in trouble; but Immanuel has met us with a blessing, a
hundred fold beyond our expectation. It is the beginning of a great
work for future generations. I know that the joy of heaven is
awakened in the joy of blessed Mr. Stocking and Mr. Stoddard. I want
to fly to them and talk with them about it, but this veil does not
allow it.
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