. Annual reports of the boards to the General Assembly . ly summer. Mr. Labaree left the mission last June, for a temporary absence,necessitated by the health of himself and family. Dr. Van Norden was ordained to the gospel ministry at Oroomiahlast simimer. The luission has experienced a sad bereavement in the death ofMrs. Stocking, under peculiarly trying cucumstances, while on atour with her husband to the out-stations, located in Koordistan andon the banks of the distant Tigris. She had greatly endeared her-seK to all who knew her dm-iog her shoi-t years residence in thefield. Her death has
. Annual reports of the boards to the General Assembly . ly summer. Mr. Labaree left the mission last June, for a temporary absence,necessitated by the health of himself and family. Dr. Van Norden was ordained to the gospel ministry at Oroomiahlast simimer. The luission has experienced a sad bereavement in the death ofMrs. Stocking, under peculiarly trying cucumstances, while on atour with her husband to the out-stations, located in Koordistan andon the banks of the distant Tigris. She had greatly endeared her-seK to all who knew her dm-iog her shoi-t years residence in thefield. Her death has inflicted a severe loss upon the missionarywork. Mr. Stocking, on the same tour, received a partial sunstroke,which has impaired his health. Mrs. Cochran retains her connection with the Mission, and isactive in various hnes of missionary influence. The Presbytery of Oroomiah was organized January 31, 1872. Nestoria/n Department. Since the return of Mr. Labaree, Mr. Coan is the only missionarywith a full command of the Syriac, the language in which all. 54 ANNUAL REPORT. operations amoiif^ the Nestorians are carried on. llie burden ofcare and responsibility resting upon him as the veteran of the mis-sion, in connection with the press, the treasury, and all the interestsof the large body of helpers and of the churches is almost over-whelming, and will be until the new missionaries become familiarwith the language and the work. Mr. Stocking ia already able to render important assistance. Hehas had the oversight of the village-schools and of the male semin-ary during a shoi-t session, and has charge of the mountain department. Greatly as the Mission felt the importance of sending one of thenew missionaries to Teheran, as an associate of Mr. Bassett, thepressing claims of the Nestorian work, the accumulated results ofnearly forty years, outweighed all other considerations, and and AMiipple were both retained at Oroomiah. They haveentered energetically upon the stud
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