"He goes among the churches," said the lamented Professor B.B.Edwards, of the Andover Seminary, "burning like a seraph.

So heavenly a spirit has hardly ever been seen in this country." Mr.Stoddard's daughter Harriet followed him to the grave within two months, at the age of thirteen, a victim to the same disease.

She was sustained by the same calm trust in Christ, which lighted up the last hours of her excellent father.
Dr.Perkins wrote in 1857, that when the mission was commenced, twenty-four years before, hardly a score of Nestorian men were able to read intelligently, and but a single woman, the sister of the Patriarch.

The people had no printed books, and but few copies even of portions of the Bible in manuscript, and these were all in the ancient Syriac, and almost unintelligible.

Their spoken language, the modern Syriac, had not been reduced to writing.