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
"Though we are far from each other in this evil world, yet I hope that
our Lord Jesus Christ will make us pure from sin, and worthy of his
kingdom, where we shall see each other with that light which shall not
end, in the joy of the holy angels. Ah, my friends, how great are our
mercies and we how unworthy, but especially I!--unworthy of the gift of
the gospel of God, which I have received, that I might make it known to
lost souls around me. But know ye, very little have I made known about
our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, dear friends, I desire to speak of him to
lost souls, in the imperfection of my mind. But many do not desire even
to hear of the sound doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ, and yet think
to gain heaven, while they practise in this world according to their
wicked desires. And for this reason, O my sisters, I beseech you that
you will remember this people, lost and fallen under the snares of
Satan; especially my mother, and brother, and all my friends. But more
especially, I beseech you to remember me, a sinner, in your prayers,
every time that you bow the knee before God, the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and the Father of all who fear him, and listen to his
commandments."
Accompanying these was the following to Dr. Perkins, dated October 3d,
1851:--
"To you, O my spiritual father, Mr. Perkins, I presume to send two
letters, for friends in Middlebury. If you please, you will translate
them, and send them; but I fear that they will give you much trouble.
"Again, you wrote me in your letter, that I should teach children to
read. Now, I am very needy myself of instruction. Yet I desire that
that might be my employment. But that is a very difficult matter among
such a people, of whom you have heard that although there may be here
and there one who would walk in this way, yet there is a stone of
stumbling and a rock of offence therein; so that every one that goeth
in it, his foot stumbleth, and quickly he turns back.
"Again, O friend beloved, though I am unworthy to call you such, yet I
beseech you that you remember me always in your prayers. I know that
you do remember me, but I desire that you remember me more, for I
greatly fear for my perishing soul. Greatly do I desire to see you once
more in this world, if the Lord will."
He who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working, commissioned
these praying souls to prepare his way in the mountains, even as he
chose those other three to show forth his grace in death; and they who
live to mark the future course of the river of life in those rocky
glens will find, we trust, that his strength was made perfect in their
weakness.
CHAPTER XVIII.
LABORERS IN THE MOUNTAINS.
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.--CONFERENCE OF NATIVE HELPERS.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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