You, too, will want to fly to the people that are so dear
to you. I trust that this pouring out of such a spirit will be the
door of many blessings. We have had a scarcity for seven years, so
that wheat is six times its former price. Our people are poor and
sorely oppressed. From the depths of their poverty they have given:
I never knew them before. If all were Christians, what might we not
see? Perhaps the poor widows and orphans, who have contributed for
our good, have been discouraged; but truly their gifts have not been
sown in vain among our people. I believe at the last day you will
see fruit according to the word of Jesus--thirty, sixty, and a
hundred fold. The time is not far off when every converted Nestorian
will go to ten Mussulmen to teach them the word of God.
"Pray for us more than ever, for many are the enemies of Nehemiah
and ruined Jerusalem. Our hope is in God. He has begun, and he will
finish."
The pledges then made have since been fulfilled, with very few
exceptions, and that not regretfully, but with a heartiness truly
affecting to those who knew their poverty. In July, 1861, the
mission resolved to furnish no teacher for a school--except in new
villages--where a part of his support was not assumed by the people.
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