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
Nazloo, of Vizierawa, a pupil who hoped she took Christ for her Saviour
in 1849, and graduated in 1853, within less than a year after her
conversion was summoned to the death-bed of her uncle; and scarcely had
she returned to her studies before she was called to the bedside of her
father. For three days she watched with him incessantly, by day and by
night. Those who were present were greatly moved by her tender care of
him. During the whole of his sickness, she never failed to improve
every opportunity to point him to Christ. Even to the last, she begged
him to look to the Lamb of God and live. And when he died, with his
head resting on her hand, though she had no evidence that her efforts
were successful, her wonderful calmness, under so severe a stroke, led
many to feel that she possessed a source of consolation to which they
were strangers. But her cup was not yet full. A few days passed, and
she hastened once more to her afflicted home, to find her mother
entering the dark valley. Others wept aloud, but she pointed the dying
one to Jesus; and supporting her in her loving arms, she seemed to
plant her feet in the cold waters of the river of death, and commit her
departing mother into the hands of Him who could bear her safely to the
other side. So sensible was her mother of the benefit she and hers had
received from the school, that when the teacher came in, she beckoned
her to her side, and said, with difficulty, "God is not willing I
should be a mother to my daughters any longer. I commit them to you:
they are yours." She soon fell asleep, as was hoped, in Jesus. After
this, Nazloo was in the school most of the time till her marriage. As a
teacher, no one could have been more faithful: her religious experience
was very marked, and she labored wisely for souls. She still lives to
show how God can make grievous afflictions yield the peaceable fruit of
righteousness in his people.
In this connection, we cannot omit another letter, written by Hoshebo
to her teacher, in 1860, on the death of her son Absalom. It is dated
Saralon, where she and her husband Meerza reside.
DEAR MOTHER: I received your letter just before I received a bitter
stroke from the never-erring hand of my heavenly Father. Many thanks
for your loving remembrances of me. I cannot reward you for one of a
thousand of the good things that you have shown me, so unworthy. I have
many thoughts of you, and of those pleasant days that we passed
together in that blessed school. I am very sad when I think that
perhaps I may never, in this house of my pilgrimage, see your face,
which makes others to be exceeding glad.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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