All the way from Aleppo to Mosul, they had the assistance of Mr.Kotschy, who, in addition to his medical knowledge, had travelled seven years in Western Asia and Africa.

The route, moreover, had been, and is still, one of the great highways of nations.
No doubt Divine Providence is always consistent with itself, and with the Saviour's promise; and so would it always appear to us, could we see, as God sees, the end from the beginning.

To the devoted missionary, who dies at the outset of his career, all is satisfactory, however painful the circumstances, as soon as he passes the dark portal.

Then, too, in contemplating the reverses which were now beginning to thicken upon the mission, we should bear in mind, that the divine plan for the Mountain Nestorian mission, as afterwards appeared, was not that it be prosecuted from the western side of the mountains, but from Oroomiah, the position first taken by the mission; where, as we shall soon see, Gospel influences were gathering a peculiar and most needful strength.
As soon as Mr.Hinsdale was able to travel, he accompanied Dr.Grant on a tour among the Yezidee and Nestorian villages lying near to Mosul.1 1 For an account of this tour, see _Missionary Herald_, 1842, pp.
310-320.
The Jacobites are a branch of the venerable Church of Antioch, and were then painfully struggling to repel the inroads of the Papacy.
As soon as they learned the adherence of the American missionaries to the Bible, and their opposition to Papal innovations, they began to welcome them as friends.

Having been duped by the plausible pretenses of the Papists, they were at first cautious in their advances; but a priest from the Syrian Christians in India, named Joseph Matthew, on his way to be ordained metropolitan by the Syrian Patriarch at Mardin, did much to dispel their fears, and promote friendly relations with the missionaries.