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History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I.

CHAPTER XIII
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The Patriarch fled to Mosul.

Several of his brothers fled to Oroomiah, and there threw themselves on the hospitality of the mission, which in their destitute circumstances could not be refused.

Many were sold into slavery.

Of the fifty thousand mountain Nestorians, the estimated number before the war, one fifth part were numbered with the slain.
Mrs.Laurie was called on the 16th of December, to rest from her labors.

"In her last hours," writes Dr.Grant, "she was mercifully delivered alike from bodily pain and from mental anxieties.


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