He regarded them as incidental to his calling of God in Christ Jesus; and in the pursuit of this heavenly calling, he was more happy in the savage wilds of Koordistan, than he would have been in the most favored portions of his native land.
Mr.Laurie and Dr.Smith, the surviving brethren at Mosul, entered the mountains in the summer of 1844, explored the district of Tiary, and visited Nurullah Bey at Birchullah above Julamerk.

Wherever they went among the Nestorians, they found a painful scene of desolation.
On their return to Mosul, they forwarded their journal and a summary view of the facts, and asked the Committee to decide whether to continue the effort to approach the Nestorians from the west, and the Committee now forwarded definite instructions to discontinue this branch of the mission.1 They proceeded to Beirut in Syria, accompanied by Mrs.Hinsdale, who had been bereaved of her only child.

Mr.Laurie became a member of the Syrian mission, and Dr.
Smith of the Armenian; and Mrs.Hinsdale was for some time employed in the instruction of missionary children at Constantinople.
1 _Missionary Herald_, 1845, pp.

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