Woman and Her Saviour in Persia By a Returned Missionary

EXAMINATION IN 1850.--COLLATION AND ADDRESS.--VALEDICTORY BY SANUM. --SABBATH SCHOOL IN GEOG TAPA.--EXAMINATION THERE IN 1854.--PRAYER MEETING AND COMMUNION AT OROOMIAH, MAY, 18...

LANGUAGE OF PRAYER.--PRAYER ON HORSEBACK.--OLD MAN IN SUPERGAN.--MAR OGEN.---EARNESTNESS.--FAREWELL PRAYER MEETING IN 1858.--LETTER FROM PUPIL.--SPIRIT OF PRAYER IN 1846.--WOMAN...

It was very important that the pupils should be able to express their own thoughts, readily and correctly, with the pen, and unwearied effort was devoted to this end; but for a...

LETTER OF BADAL.--ACCOUNT OF HANNAH.--THE PIT.--'LETTER OF GULY AND YOHANAN.--ACCOUNT OF SARAH.--LETTERS OF OSHANA.--LETTERS AND JOURNAL OF SARAH.--LETTER FKOM AMADIA.--CONFEREN...

HOSPITALITY OF NESTORIANS.--KINDNESS OF PUPILS.--BATHING FEET.--LETTERS OF GOZEL, HANEE, SANUM OF GAWAR, MUNNY, RAHEEL, AND MARTA.--HOSHEBO.--RAHEEL TO MRS. FISKE.--MOURNING FOR...

BENEVOLENCE, EARLY MANIFESTATION OF.--PROGRESS.--REVIVAL OF BENEVOLENCE IN APRIL, 1861.--INTEREST OF PARENTS FOR THE CONVERSION OF THEIR CHILDREN.--PEACE IN FAMILIES.--REFORMED...

MAE YOHANAN.--STANDARD OF SCHOLARSHIP.--ENGLISH BOOKS READ IN SYRIAC.--EXPENSE.--FEELINGS OF PARENTS.--DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT.--DAILY REPORTS.--PICTURE OF A WEEK DAY AND SABBATH.--...

USEFULNESS AMONG RELATIVES OF PUPILS.--DEACON GUWERGIS.--REFORMED DRUNKARD AND HIS DAUGHTER.--MATERNAL MEETINGS.---EARLY INQUIRERS FROM GEOG TAPA.--PARTING ADDRESS OF MR. HOLLAD...

POLITICAL CONDITION.--NESTORIAN HOUSES.--VERMIN.--SICKNESS.--POSITION AND ESTIMATION OF WOMAN.--NO READERS AMONG THEM.--UNLOVELY SPIRIT.--SINS OF THE TONGUE.--PROFANITY.--LYING....

PREPARATORY WORK.--SANCTIFIED AFFLICTIONS.--NAME FOR REVIVAL.--SCENES IN IHE SEMINARIES IN JANUARY.--DEACON JOHN, SANUM, AND SARAH.--MR. STODDARD.--YAKOB.--YONAN.--MEETING IN TH...

But rich as are the benefits conferred on the females of the plain, the influence of the Seminary is not confined to Persia. It has climbed the rugged steeps of Kurdistan, and p...

DEACON JOHN STUDYING BACKSLIDING IN 1849--WORK IN VILLAGE OF SEIR--WIVES OF SIYAD AND YONAN--KHANUMJAN--WOMEN AT THE SEMINARY--GEOG TAPA--DEGALA--A PENITENT--SIN OF ANGER--REVIV...

But, aside from open persecution, there is a constant danger arising from the people themselves. The teacher in a Christian land can never fully understand the feelings of the m...

SEMINARY BROKEN UP IN 1844.--DEACON ISAAC.--PERSECUTION BY MAR SHIMON.--FUNERAL OF DAUGHTER OF PRIEST ESHCO.--DEACON GUWERGIS.--ATTEMPT AT ABDUCTION OF PUPIL.--PERIL OF SCHOOL.-...

Let us now turn aside to take a nearer view of the first fruits of this revival. The first to ask the way to heaven, to find it, and to enter through the gate into the city, was...

The village of Geog Tapa is so prominent, and has been so largely blessed, that, though there is not room for a continuous account of the work in that place, we here give a glim...

MRS. GRANT.--EARLY LIFE AND LABORS.--GREAT INFLUENCE.--HER SCHOOL.--HER PUPILS.--CHANGED INTO BOARDING SCHOOL.--GETTING PUPILS.--CARE OF THEM.--DIFFICULTIES FROM POVERTY OF PEOP...

Towards the close of July, 1851, Mr. Stocking and family, with Misses Fiske and Rice, and several native helpers, spent the vacation in Gawar. Mr. Coan accompanied them on his w...

We will now glance at the scene of the events to be narrated, as it may not be familiar to every reader. To write of woman in Persia would embrace the whole empire as the field...

The teachers of the Seminary did not confine their labors to its inmates; they expended both time and toil for adult women as well as for their daughters, and never felt that th...

The following account of Miss Fiske's visit to Marbeeshoo, in November, 1847, presents a vivid picture of things as they were, and the Christian thoughtfulness of one who had le...

Let us now look at some of the principles on which missionary education was here carried on, that we may see what kind of an instrumentality God was pleased to crown with his bl...

BENEVOLENCE, EARLY MANIFESTATION OF.--PROGRESS.--REVIVAL OF BENEVOLENCE IN APRIL, 1861.--INTEREST OF PARENTS FOR THE CONVERSION OF THEIR CHILDEREN.--PEACE IN FAMILIES.--REFORMED...

LANGUAGE OP PRAYER.--PRAYER ON HORSEBACK.--OLD MAN IN SUPERGAN.--MAR OGEN.--EARNESTNESS.--FAREWELL PRAYER MEETING IN 1858.--LETTER FROM PUPIL.--SPIRIT OF PRAYER IN 1846.--WOMAN...

DEACON JOHN STUDYING BACKSLIDING IN 1849.--WORK IN VILLAGE OF SEIR.--WIVES OF SIYAD AND YONAN.--KHANUMJAN.--WOMEN AT THE SEMINARY.--GEOG TAPA.--DEGALA.--A PENITENT.--SIN OF ANGE...

PREPARATORY WORK.--SANCTIFIED AFFLICTIONS.--NAME FOR REVIVAL.--SCENES IN THE SEMINARIES IN JANUARY.--DEACON JOHN, SANUM, AND SARAH.--MR. STODDARD.--YACOB.--YONAN.--MEETING IN TH...

MAR YOHANAN.--STANDARD OF SCHOLARSHIP.--ENGLISH BOOKS READ IN SYRIAC.--EXPENSE.--FEELINGS OF PARENTS.--DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT.--DAILY REPORTS.--PICTURE OF A WEEK DAY AND SABBATH.--...

HOSPITALITY OF NESTORIANS.--KINDNESS OF PUPILS.--BATHING FEET.--LETTERS OF GOZEL, HANEE, SANUM OF GAWAR, MUNNY, RAHEEL, AND MARTA.--HOSHEBO.--RAHEEL TO MRS. FISKE.--MOURNING FOR...

USEFULNESS AMONG RELATIVES OF PUPILS.--DEACON GUWERGIS.--REFORMED DRUNKARD AND HIS DAUGHTER.--MATERNAL MEETINGS.--EARLY INQUITIES FROM GEOG TAPA.--PARTING ADDRESS OF MR. HOLLADA...

SEMINARY BROKEN UP IN 1844.--DEACON ISAAC.--PERSECUTION BY MAR SHIMON.--FUNERAL OF DAUGHTER OF PRIEST ESHOO.--DEACON GUWERGIS.--ATTEMPT AT ABDUCTION OF PUPIL.--PERIL OF SCHOOL.-...

EXAMINATION IN 1850.--COLLATION AND ADDRESS.--VALEDICTORY BY SANUM.--SABBATH SCHOOL IN GEOG TAPA.--EXAMINATION THERE IN 1854.--PRAYER MEETING AND COMMUNION AT OROGMIAH, MAY, 185...

POLITICAL CONDITION.--NESTORIAN HOUSES.--VERMIN.--SICKNESS.--POSITION AND ESTIMATION OF WOMAN.--NO READERS AMONG THEM.--UNLOVELY SPIRIT.--SINS OF THE TONGUE.--PROFANITY.--LYING....

LETTER OF BADAL.--ACCOUNT OP HANNAH.--THE PIT.--LETTER OF GULY AND YOHANAN.--ACCOUNT OF SARAH.--LETTERS OF OSHANA.--LETTERS AND JOURNAL OF SARAH,--LETTERS FROM AMADIA,--CONFEREN...

MRS. GRANT.--EARLY LIFE AND LABORS.--GREAT INFLUENCE.--HER SCHOOL.--HER PUPILS.--BOARDING SCHOOL.--GETTING PUPILS.--CARE OP THEM.--POVERTY OF PEOPLE.--PAYING FOR FOOD OF SCHOLAR...