Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . ving visits ofsuch missionaries asthe elder Scudder,Justin Perkins, Da-vid Tappan Stod-dard, and a largenumber of Middle-bury alumni, couldnot but have its ef-fect on young Laba-rees mind, leadingto his offering him-self, during his termof theological studyat Andover, Mass.,to the AmericanBoard for mission-ary appointment. Hegraduated from theAndover Seminaryin 1859, in a classwhich was unusuallypermeated by themissionary spirit,nearly one-third ofwhom finally entered the foreign mission service. He was mar-ried June 5, 1860, to Miss ElizabethE
Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . ving visits ofsuch missionaries asthe elder Scudder,Justin Perkins, Da-vid Tappan Stod-dard, and a largenumber of Middle-bury alumni, couldnot but have its ef-fect on young Laba-rees mind, leadingto his offering him-self, during his termof theological studyat Andover, Mass.,to the AmericanBoard for mission-ary appointment. Hegraduated from theAndover Seminaryin 1859, in a classwhich was unusuallypermeated by themissionary spirit,nearly one-third ofwhom finally entered the foreign mission service. He was mar-ried June 5, 1860, to Miss ElizabethEdwards Woods, of Enfield, Mass., andsailed for Persia, July 3, of Ihe same,year. His first station was at Oroomiah,for a time assisting in the male semi-nary at Mt. Seir, but later he entered upondirect evangelistic work, to which he wasprincipally devoted for some seven the withdrawal of Rev. Dr. Perkinsfrom the mission, near the close of his life,Mi. Labaree assumed charge of the literaryand press work of the station, chiefly in the. Benjamin Labaree, Syriac language, including the editing ofthe monthly newspaper, the Bays of also engaged in the translation of thegospels and the Psalms, in the Turkishdialect spoken in Azerbaijan, Ihe northwestprovince of Persia, and in the Caucasus inRussia, a language in which almost noknown literature existed at 1he time. Themost important work undertaken by subsequently was the revision ofthe Old and New Testaments in the ver-nacular Syriac, originally translated by and his early associates. Owing to ill health in his family, was constrained to return toAmerica in the two yearsfollowing he was en-gaged in putting therevised Biblethrough the press,under the auspicesof the American Bi-ble Society. Sincethen he has been inthe home service ofthe Foreign Boardeither as recordingor assistant secre-tary, or in preparingliterature for themission in Persia. The degree was conf
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