. Leavening the Levant . f the missionaries,brought within the mission compound, where they were lodgedin the mission school buildings and hospital, and were fed andtended until near the end of July, at the peril of the livesof the missionary attendants. Indeed, early in July , the leading physician, and his wife, Mr. and , and Miss Rogers, the principal of the girls school,were taken with the dreaded disease, and on July 13 died, and was buried in the missionary graveyard,while her husband and Mr. Yarrow were too ill to be informedof the sad event. When, near the
. Leavening the Levant . f the missionaries,brought within the mission compound, where they were lodgedin the mission school buildings and hospital, and were fed andtended until near the end of July, at the peril of the livesof the missionary attendants. Indeed, early in July , the leading physician, and his wife, Mr. and , and Miss Rogers, the principal of the girls school,were taken with the dreaded disease, and on July 13 died, and was buried in the missionary graveyard,while her husband and Mr. Yarrow were too ill to be informedof the sad event. When, near the end of July, a largerTurkish force approached Van, the entire Armenian popu-lation and 15 American missionaries, including children, fled,and after weeks of incredible hardship and no little lossreached the Russian border. Mrs. Raynolds, whose leg wasbroken in the flight, utterly exhausted, died in Tiflis onAugust 12, 1915, two days before the arrival of her husbandfrom America, and after 47 years of missionary
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