POLITICAL CONDITION.--NESTORIAN HOUSES.--VERMIN.--SICKNESS.--POSITION AND ESTIMATION OF WOMAN.--NO READERS AMONG THEM.--UNLOVELY SPIRIT.--SINS OF THE TONGUE.--PROFANITY.--LYING.--STEALING.--STORY ABOUT PINS.--IMPURITY.--MOSLEM INTERFERENCE WITH SEMINARY. CHAPTER II. MARBEESHOO. VISIT THERE.--NATIVE ACCOMMODATIONS.--HOSPITALITY OF SENUM.--MOHAMMEDAN WOMEN. CHAPTER III. THE SCENE OF THE NARRATIVE. NESTORIANS.--THEIR COUNTRY.--FRONTISPIECE.--LAKE.--PLAIN.--FORDING THE SHAHER.--MISSION PREMISES IN OROGMIAH. CHAPTER IV. MISSIONARY EDUCATION. OBJECT.--MEANS.--STUDY OF BIBLE.--PUPILS KEPT IN SYMPATHY WITH THE PEOPLE.--PEOPLE STIMULATED TO EXERTION AND SELF-DEPENDENCE.--TAHITI.--MADAGASCAR. CHAPTER V. BEGINNINGS. 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 SCHOLARS.--POSITION OF UNMARRIED MISSIONARY LADIES.--BOOKS. CHAPTER VI. THE SEMINARY. 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.--"IF YOU LOVE ME, LEAN HARD."--ESLI'S JOURNAL.--LETTER FROM PUPILS TO MOUNT HOLYOKE SEMINARY--FROM THE SAME TO MRS. C.T. MILLS. CHAPTER VII. VACATION SCENES. IN GAWAR AND ISHTAZIN.--VILLAGES OF MEMIKAN.--OOREYA, DARAWE, AND SANAWAR.--IN GAVALAN.--ACCOMMODATIONS.--SABBATH SCHOOL. CHAPTER VIII. EARLY LABORS FOR WOMEN. FIRST MEETINGS WITH THEM.--FIRST CONVERT.--FIRST LESSONS.--WILD WOMEN OF ARDISHAI. CHAPTER IX. FRUITS OF LABOR IN NESTORIAN HOMES. USEFULNESS AMONG RELATIVES OF PUPILS.--DEACON GUWERGIS.--REFORMED DRUNKARD AND HIS DAUGHTER.--MATERNAL MEETINGS.--EARLY INQUITIES FROM GEOG TAPA.--PARTING ADDRESS OF MR. HOLLADAY.--.VISIT TO GEOG TAPA.--SELBY AND HER CLOSET. CHAPTER X. GEOG TAPA. DEACON MURAD KHAN IN 1846.--PENTECOSTAL SABBATH IN 1849.--MEETINGS IN 1850 AND 1854.--EXTRACTS FROM JOURNAL OF YONAN IN 1858. CHAPTER XI. REVIVAL IN 1846. PREPARATORY WORK.--SANCTIFIED AFFLICTIONS.--NAME FOR REVIVAL.--SCENES IN THE SEMINARIES IN JANUARY.--DEACON JOHN, SANUM, AND SARAH.--MR. STODDARD.--YACOB.--YONAN.--MEETING IN THE BETHEL.--PRIEST ESHOO.--DEACON TAMO.--PHYSICAL EXCITEMENT AND ITS CURE.--ARTLESS SIMPLICITY OF CONVERTS.--MISSIONARY BOX.--MEETINGS BEFORE VACATION.--MR. STODDARD'S LABORS.--FEMALE PRAYER MEETING.--REVIVAL IN THE AUTUMN. CHAPTER XII. FIRST FRUITS. SARAH, DAUGHTER OF PRIEST ESHOO.--MARTHA.--HANNAH. CHAPTER XIII. SUBSEQUENT REVIVALS. 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,--REVIVAL IN 1856.--MISS FISKE ENCOURAGED,--STILLNESS AND DEEP FEELING.--UNABLE TO SING.--CONVERSION OF MISSIONARY CHILDREN.--VISIT OF ENGLISH AMBASSADOR.--REVIVAL OF 1857.--LETTER OF SANUM. CHAPTER XIV. DARK DAYS.