[History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson]@TWC D-Link bookHistory Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. CHAPTER XXIX 1/22
CHAPTER XXIX. THE NESTORIANS. 1857-1863. The sojourn of three weeks at Tabriz had been a source of constant anxiety to Messrs.
Stoddard and Wright, and the former had premonitory symptoms of fever on his way home.
But he was not apprehensive on that account, and finding Mr.Cochran and two of the native teachers disabled by sickness, he devoted much time and labor to the Seminary, and to the correspondence which had accumulated in his absence.
Yet fever was threatening, and on the 22d of December, ten days after his return, he became decidedly ill.
On the 25th he was confined to his bed, where he lay for two and thirty days, while the fever ran its fatal course.
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