t allow him to want; so he left his
father-in-law, and learnt the trade of a taylor. From the very first
he began to teach his wife, and she takes part with him; and he is now
selling Bibles and Testaments, and circulating tracts among the
Russian soldiers. This is a sight indeed! for centuries perhaps they
have not seen one of their own body rising up, and choosing to suffer
affliction with the people of God, rather than enjoy the pleasures of
sin for a season; and the sight is as strange to Mohammedans as to
Christians. May the Lord sustain, comfort, and bless him out of his
heavenly treasures.

From Tabreez our tidings are heavy, or rather would be, but that the
Lord of love directs and orders all, and sees the end from the
beginning, yet they have also good tidings too. I have already
mentioned, that the cholera had been raging at Tabreez; but we learn,
that not only this, but the plague is there also, to a most frightful
extent. I will just copy here the account our dear sister
Mrs. ---- has given us; and for whose safety we desire to bless
the Lord; she says,

"Before this reaches you, you may have heard of the sorrow and
desolation that have befallen this city within these last two
months. Thousands around us have been cut off by the cholera
and the plague. The former raged so furiously for the first
month, that 2 or 300 died daily. Symptoms of the plague first
were discovered in the ark among the Russian soldiers, which
manifested itself by breaking out over the body in large boils;
the person attacked, feeling himself overcome by stupor; many
died before it was thought what it was; precautions were taken,
and they were sent out to camp at some distance from the town.
The disorder has not raged among them so much as it has in the
town. I cannot tell you how great the fear was that was struck
into the minds of the people. Many were taken ill through fear,
of which they died. Previous to the city being quite deserted,
men, women, children, of all denominations, collected
themselves together in large bodies, crying and beseeching God
to turn away his judgments from them: this they did bareheaded
and without shoes, humbling themselves, they said, because they
knew they were great sinners. The air resounded with their
cries day and night, particularly the latter, and often during
the whole of it. Oh, did they b