[Illustration: PLAIN OF OROOMIAH, FROM THE SEMINARY AT SEIR.]




WOMAN AND HER SAVIOUR IN PERSIA.

BY

A RETURNED MISSIONARY.


With

Fine Illustrations, and a Map of Nestorian Country.




PREFACE.

Our Saviour bade his disciples gather up the fragments, that nothing
be lost; and many who have known of Miss Fiske's fifteen years of
labor for woman in Persia, have desired her to prepare for
publication the facts now presented to the reader. The writer was
one of these; and it was only when he found that she could not do
it, that he attempted it, in accordance with her wishes, simply that
these interesting records of divine grace might not be lost.

The materials have been drawn from the letters and conversations of