Woman and Her Saviour in Persia: By a Returned MissionaryLaurie, Thomas
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Woman and Her Saviour in Persia: By a Returned Missionary
Laurie, Thomas
Church of the East -- Missions; Missions -- Iran; Women missionaries
"We preached three times to large assemblies. They brought us Nazee's
Testament to preach from, and seemed accustomed to the sound of the
gospel. In respectful attention to the word, as well as in knowledge,
they were far superior to other villages in Tiary. This we knew was the
result of her teachings. Monday we waited her return. She came about
noon. How can we express the joy of that meeting! We spent another
night there, the most of it in sweet Christian conversation with Nazee.
We were surprised at the respect shown to her, and the restraint felt
in her presence. If any chanced to swear, he at once went and asked
pardon for thus injuring her feelings. Tuesday we had to leave, lest we
should be detained by the snow till spring. We longed to pray with her
before we left, but custom here forbade it; yet she accompanied us a
little on our way, which gave as an opportunity to mingle our prayers
and tears together. As we bade her farewell, she said, weeping, 'Here
is my love for my teachers, for my sisters in the school, for the
missionaries, their children, and all that know me. Tell them to
remember me in their prayers, that God may keep me in this place of
temptation.' We left her looking after us, and wiping away her tears,
till we were out of sight.
"We went that day to the village of the other two. As soon as Heleneh
saw us, she began to weep, thinking of the past. Sarah we did not see;
she was in another village, very anxious to come, but her wicked
husband, whom she had been forced to marry, would not permit it. We
spent the night with Heleneh, and preached to a large company. Next
morning we left, and she too, with tears, begged that all her friends
in Oroomiah would remember her in their prayers."
Was Sarah prevented from seeing her Christian friends, that God might
show hereafter how, without even that help, he could answer the prayers
of others for her, and her own?
The next we hear of them is through Mr. Coan, who visited Tiary in
August, 1851. The writer can understand his account of crossing the
Zab, as the bridge was in the same condition when he crossed it with
the late Dr. Azariah Smith, August 31st, 1844. But hear Mr. Coan:--
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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