They form an important part of the
instrumentalities God has employed to bring woman in Persia to the
knowledge of her Saviour. A mass of her correspondence now lies
before the writer, which he has read with much interest; but to
quote from it would only be, reproducing scenes already portrayed.
It is not necessary to describe the laying of each course of brick
in the walls of the spiritual temple.
One sentence, however, now arrests my eye, which I must quote,
because it shows how the Saviour was preparing her for the sole care
of the school, that has devolved on her ever since, owing to the
protracted illness of Miss Aura J. Beach, who was sent out to her
assistance in February, 1860. Writing to her predecessor, three
years ago, she says, "O, what a relief to roll the burdens, which we
cannot bear, upon the strong arm outstretched to help, and feel
that, like sinking Peter, we shall be sustained amid raging
billows!"
Labor among the Nestorians is becoming more assimilated to labor at
home. Instead of the national peculiarities conspicuous at the
outset, different from our own, and prominent because so different,
things begin to move in familiar orbits, because they set out from
similar conditions and tend to like results.
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