قراءة كتاب Modern Persia

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Modern Persia

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Daniel Mooshie G

دار النشر: Project Gutenberg

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XII. Matrimony 115-20

PART III.

I.	The Royal Family—The King in his Palace—His Table—Treasury—Wives	120-28
II.	Governor—Prisons—Executions	128-34
III.	Counts or Lords	134-36
IV.	Cities—Holidays—Schools	136-44

PART IV.

I.	Bobeism—Bobe—His Doctrine—His Personal Appearance	145-52
II.	The Kurds—Occupation—Their Character—Houses—Religion	153-59

PART V.

I.	The Nestorians—Their Place—Language	160-62
II.	Their History	163-64
III.	Clergy	164-65
IV.	Churches and Ordinances	166-70
V.	Assyrian or Nestorian College	170-71
VI.	Assyrian Missionary Spirit	172-74
VII.	Their Persecutions	174-79
VIII.	Their Condition at the time American Missions were started	179-80

PART VI.

I.	Introduction of Mission Work	181-83
II.	Method of Work	183-86
III.	Development of Mission Work	187-90
IV.	Religious Education—College—Ladies' Seminary—-Medical Schools—Country Schools—Translation of Books	190-201
V.	The Gospel and Temporal Improvement—Temperance—Conversion to Mohammedanism—Morals Elevated	201-10
VI.	Mission Work among Moslems	210-11

M. G. DANIEL.

LIFE OF MOOSHIE G. DANIEL IN PERSIA.

The ancestors of M. G. Daniel, a true stock of the Nestorian sect and Syrian nationality came down from Kurdiston mountain in 1740 and settled in Persia at Oroomiah district. The one family now increased to fifty, all live in villages near to each other. G. Daniel with his four brothers settled in a small village four miles east of Oroomiah city. The inhabitants of this village are composed of fifty Mohammedan families and twenty-eight Nestorians. His parents had four sons and two daughters, all died in their childhood. Daniel was their seventh child born in 1861. His native village was visited by Rev. G. Coan, D.D. and Dr. Perkins, missionaries from America who preached the gospel message to the Nestorians of that village, at the same time also started a school for their children. At this time Daniel was thirteen years old. The parents were very glad to send their children to this school which increased to thirty students.

Daniel was very anxious to attend this school. This desire was encouraged in every possible way by his earnest, self sacrificing Christian mother, Rachel, who came of high and noble lineage. But his father vigorously objected for fear his son would change from his old

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