A noble testimony of Christian devotedness had been given in her consecration to one of the most difficult and trying fields in modern missions; and death to her was but the Saviour's welcome to mansions of undisturbed repose." It has been stated that the Turkish government had refused a firman to Dr.Azariah Smith, in case he were a missionary to the Nestorians of Koordistan.

He accordingly remained in the Armenian mission, where he found useful occupation till the arrival of the Foreign Secretary; when it was arranged that he should proceed to Mosul by way of Beirut and Aleppo, and either remain permanently connected with the mission, or return to the Armenians as a missionary physician.

A firman was now given him, and he reached Mosul in safety on the 29th of March.

Little did any one think that his first duty would be to smooth Dr.Grant's descent to the grave, yet an all-wise Providence had so ordained.

A typhoid fever, which had carried off many of the refugee Nestorians in Mosul, seized their beloved physician on the 5th of April.