Life and light for woman . that citywe have a self-supporting church, the inost advanced and encouraging inour field. The native pastor speaks five languages, and is a very goodpreacher. The women and girls have separate Christian Endeavor Socie-ties. The members of the womens society visit tlie houses and give spir-itual counsel, go about with tlie Bible woman and examine herscholars, etc., while the girls sewfor the poor. One prominentwoman visits in the Jewish quar-ter, and took us there one is rare to find a church in thisland in which there are so manvworkers and so much real life.
Life and light for woman . that citywe have a self-supporting church, the inost advanced and encouraging inour field. The native pastor speaks five languages, and is a very goodpreacher. The women and girls have separate Christian Endeavor Socie-ties. The members of the womens society visit tlie houses and give spir-itual counsel, go about with tlie Bible woman and examine herscholars, etc., while the girls sewfor the poor. One prominentwoman visits in the Jewish quar-ter, and took us there one is rare to find a church in thisland in which there are so manvworkers and so much real a prayer meeting, after thesubject of prayer had been con-sidered at two or three precedingmeetings, the pastor announcedthat we would have a conversa-tion meeting, and the congrega-tion broke up into little groupsto talk together informally aboutprayer. From Diarbekir we came toHaine, on the borders of Koordi- stan. First we crossed the Tigris missionary in village dress on a raft made of inflated sheep- eastern turkey. 106 Life and Light \_March skins, covered with branches of trees. Then we had a tiresome journey of aday and a half in the heat, spending the night in the open fields, with thesky for a roof and thick grass for a carpet. It was rather weird to be out inthat lonely place with our two big, armed, Koordish muleteers, our zabdiehand our servant. We could not sleep much because of the strangeness of thesituation, the coming and going of armed Koords from neighboring tents, andtheir shouting now and then to our men. One feels quite out of the world inthis place, which is beautifully located in a valley with many trees. OiuHarpoot region is so bare of trees that we appreciate them doubly in a placelike this. As is often the case in a small place like this, cut off from therest of the world, we find here a simple, kind-hearted, earnest people,giving liberally from their limited means. They have a very good churclibuilding, which was not destroyed during the massacre
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