The Tennesseean in Persia and Koordistan
SCENES AND INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OP
Samuel Audley Rhea
by
Rev. Dwight W. Marsh
For ten years Missionary in Mosul
Tennessee gave us a President—Andrew Jackson— who said, "The Union must and shall be preserved." Many have sealed those words with blood. Tennessee has given to Persia a life and death which say,
" The knowledge of Christ must and shall he given to every creature." Many will die to make these words good... CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAQK
GLIMPSE, GEOGRAPHICAL AND BIRD'S-EYB, OF MR. KHEA'S FUTURE HOME / 9
HIGHLAND TENNESSEE / 16
NEW YORK AND ON THE WING / 22
OCEAN LIFE AND LETTERS / 30
ARRIVAL IN PERSIA—FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE VILLAGES, PEOPLE AND CITY OF OROOMIAH / 50
RENEWED CONSECRATION. HE THAT IS HOLY LET HIM BE HOLY STILL / 62
FIRST MOUNTAIN TOUR / 66
AMERICANS AT HOME IN KOORDISTAN / 74
FIRST WINTER IN GAWAR / 87
THE STORM BURSTS / 112
VISITS MOSUL—EXPLORES THE MOUNTAINS / 141
MOUNTAIN LIFE WITH MR. CRANE / 156
MARRIAGE—THE SACRED UNION / 175
DURING THE CRIMEAN AND PERSIAN WARS—DRIVEN PROM THE MOUNTAINS / 196
UP AGAIN TO THE MOUNTAIN POST—AMERICAN LADIES EXPLORE THE WILDEST RECESSES OF KOORDISTAN / 209
AT THE GATE OF HEAVEN / 225
ALONG THE TIGRIG—OVER TO PERSIA—BACK TO AMIDIAH—AGAIN TO PERSIA / 242
VISIT TO AMERICA / 255
RETURN TO PERSIA / 267
A NEW PIELD AND NEW LABORS / 279
HELP EOR THE OPPRESSED / 291
HOME INFLUENCES / 306
EVENING LABORS / 324
ALI SHAH / 336
CLOSING SCENES / 350
HIS CHARACTER / 353
VOICES OF THE NESTORIANS / 363
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1._MAP OF TURKEY AND PERSIA Frontispiece.
2.—MAP OF THE NESTORIAN COUNTRY do.
3.—ARAB ENCAMPMENT IN MESOPOTAMIA / II
4.—LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, TENNESSEE / 16
5.—TREBIZOND / 40
6.—ARMENIAN PATRIARCH / 44
7.—ARMENIAN PRIEST / 45
8.—ARMENIAN BISHOP / 47
9.—PLAIN OF OROOMIAH FROM MOUNTSEIR / 53
10.—SEIR GATE OF OROOMIAH / 56
11.—TILLAGE IN THE MOUNTAINS OF KOORDISTAN / 81
12.—NESTORIANS / 109
13,—KOORDS OF THE MOUNTAINS / 111
14.—KOYUNJIK—NINEYEH / 147
15,—STATUE OF A KING, FROM TEMPLE AT NIMROOD / 149
16,—THE TAKTEREWAN IN THE MOUNTAINS / 166
17,—AN ARAB SHEIK / 172
18.—KOORDISH WOMEN AT THE SPRING / 202
19.—TENTS FOR THE TOUR IN KOORDISTAN / 215
20.—MISSIONARY LADY AND MOUNTAIN NESTORIAN WOMEN / 218
21.—KOORDISH SHEPHERD OF THE MOUNTAINS, IN FELT COAT / 224
22.—KELEK, OR RAFT OF GOAT-SKINS, ON THE TIGRIS / 237
23.—KOORDISH CASTLE OF KOSH-AB, MAHMOODIYAH / 241
24.—BEDOUIN SHEIK AND WIFE ON DROMEDARY / 254
25.—ERZEROOM / 273
26.—ARARAT / 275
27.—TRAVELING IN PERSIA IN THE CAJAVAH / 279
28.—MOUNT SEIR, MISSION. PREMISES / 309
29.—A PERSIAN JOURNEY: CHILDREN IN BASKETS / 338 PREFACE
Tennessee gave us a President—Andrew Jackson— who said, "The Union must and shall be preserved." Many have sealed those words with blood. Tennessee has given to Persia a life and death which say,
" The knowledge of Christ must and shall he given to every creature." Many will die to make these words good.
Various persons in Asia and America, noting an example so worthy of grateful remembrance, have for two years past given much time to provide materials for this work. The reader may now follow this young Tennesseean to the inner fastnesses of almost pathless mountains. Adventures among robber chiefs in border wars will attract the young. The more thoughtful will ponder the fate of empires and vanity of life, as they follow the track of Xenophon, Alexander and Cyrus, or muse in the hollow tomb of Nineveh.
Christians, it is believed, will catch fresh inspiration from a soul so capable of responding to the call, “Come up higher”. They will never weary of looking into the struggles, pangs, joys, agonizing wrestlings and glorious victories of this fellow-soul. The name Rhea is already written upon the map of East Tennessee. It is written on hearts in Persia, and shall yet be written on the banners of many of God's embattled hosts.
These pages, as the reader will readily see, have caught intense interest from friends in Tennessee and Persia, and especially from Dr. Justin Perkins, of Oroomiah, and from the one who was nearest Mr. Rhea in life and in the thrilling scenes of his death. The omission of a profusion of valuable matter has been the most difficult and trying part of their preparation.
Only in this sentence can the author disclose how very much the work owes for delicate revision and unwearied care in its embellishment to Rev. J. W. Dulles, of Philadelphia.
That Jesus may own it in the progress of his cause is our prayer. How can we forget the blessed foreign work ! In this far land, our dear native land, we sometimes feel as the exiles felt at Babylon.
D. W. M.
Rochester, February 22, 1869. The Tennesseean in Persia and Koordistan
SCENES AND INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OP
Samuel Audley Rhea
by
Rev. Dwight W. Marsh
For ten years Missionary in Mosul
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