Dr Grant And The Mountain Nestorians Thomas Laurie by Thomas Laurie 9781463208295, 1463208294 instant download after payment.

Drawing extensively from Dr. Grant's own letters and journals, Laurie's narrative provides a lively account of the life and work of a little-known nineteenth-century missionary.

DR. GRANT first set foot in Asia June 28, 1835, after a pleasant passage of forty-eight days. They landed at Smyrna, and spent four or five days with the apostolic Mr. Temple, who, in the absence of numbers to share it with him, seemed to have inherited an unusual portion of the spirit of the beloved disciple who once labored there, — a better title to the epithet " apostolic " than was ever conferred by mitred heads. He, too, has joined his guests in that blessed world, on whose borders he used to live while here. None was ever welcomed under his hospitable roof in whose memory precious thoughts of Christ and heaven are not recalled by the very mention of his name. Dr. Grant's state of mind while here may be learned from a single paragraph of his first letter to Dr. Anderson from abroad, dated at Smyrna, July 1st: " Since leaving Boston we have constantly experienced the rich mercies of our covenant God. For this we desire that gratitude which is evinced by a cheerful obedience to his whole will, and an unwavering trust in all his promises." 

They left for Constantinople July 2, in the Maria Dorothea, one of 'the Austrian steamers, then just introduced into the Mediterranean. Her commander was Captain Ford, an intelligent Englishman, of whose kindness more than one missionary can speak with grateful recollection. They reached Constantinople on the morning of the 4th, and were soon at home with the counterpart of their host at Smyrna, the rev. Mr. Goodell. Their time passed pleasantly while waiting for a vessel to Trebizond; and, in their own words, they " became ardently attached to the beloved missionaries residing there." Here, too, they found the Rev. Mr. Merrick, who had spent some six months in the study of Turkish, preparatory to labor among the Mohammedans of Persia, and was now