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language of business here; by this means, as I get on in Arabic, I hope to be of use to them by taking a Scripture class in Arabic. I see so much to be reformed, and such a want of materials to work with, that but for having such a Head as we have, I should altogether give up in despair; but He strengthens my heart. Yesterday we heard of a person at Sheerauz, who, from his interest about the Armenians, had gone to Bushire, to offer to teach in the school there for nothing; but some misunderstanding arising between him and Aratoon, the principal Armenian there, he left it. We have sent for him, as he is said to understand the English system, which he learnt in India, and also a little English; if he be really the sort of man described, he will in every way be a great acquisition.*

There appears no doubt at all of our having a girl's school as soon as sufficient female help can be procured; and from all that I can learn of the internal state of the families of the people, nothing can be more important than to raise the moral feeling of their females; their whole domestic state would thus be easily and entirely reformed, and by bringing them in contact with God's word, they would have a standard

* Our dear brethren at Shushee are engaged in a most valuable work at present for promoting the instruction of the Armenians in the vulgar tongue.

they never could lay aside, or obliterate from their memories.

Since the conclusion of my Journal, three months have elapsed, and I can truly say, that in every respect my hopes rise daily higher; yet I never desire to forget that all is in the will and purpose of our Lord. I see about me every moment the elements of destruction to any sys tem of Christian instruction; and we are only not devoured, because the Lord our King breaks their teeth, yea, the teeth of the young lions, therefore all we can speak of is the present, that now we have all plain apparently before us. As for the future, we know nothing, neither are we careful, it is sufficient for us to know, that all things shall work together for the glory of our Elder Brother, as all things shall work together for our good; all we have to do is simply to go on trusting in the Lord, and then we shall be like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but standeth for ever.

P.S.-Ten little girls are coming to the school, who sit with the schoolmaster's wife, and go to him to say their lessons; we have been obliged to restrict our number to ten, till the Lord send us help.

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APPENDIX.

.The following letter is of so interesting a nature, and seems to throw so much light on the subjeet, regarding which Mr. Groves has been taught in so remarkable a manner, that it has been thought right to insert it at the conclusion of the testimony, the reader has just had confirmed to him of the faithfulness of God, where unlimited confidence is reposed in Him:

A Letter from Mr. Groves to a Friend in

Devonshire.

Bagdad, May 23, 1830.

Your letter makes me feel the joy of that union which the person of our dear and blessed Lord affords us. Though we seem to be divided, we are truly united by that holy happy union, which the love of our Lord by the Holy Ghost, effects through the whole body of his mystical family. If the Lord has allowed our intercourse to be blessed to us, we will rejoice together and ascribe it all to that grace, which has chosen the weak things to confound the strong, and the things that are not, to bring to nought things that are, that no flesh may

glory in his presence. That you have been a real comfort and encouragement to us I can truly say, and we feel even in this distant corner or centre of the world, the stream of your Christian love flowing round our souls, and refreshing us in an arid soil, where no verdure is, apparently neither corn, blade, nor ear; yet, perhaps, this is only as Elijah thought, and there may be many here who may yet call our kind and most gracious Master Lord and King, and bring him a pure offering in knowledge and in love.

Every day more and more confirms us in the conviction that the Lord has led us here, and therefore that he has some work for us to do. As it relates to the Armenians, our school is an object of much interest; we have altogether between fifty and sixty boys, and seven or eight girls; this number might be much increased, had we any efficient female help.

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I love to think how your kind hearts even now rejoice at the Lord's goodness manifested towards us between England and Copenhagen, and how much joy is yet in store for you, when you hear of his loving-kindness and accumulated mercies between that the beginning, and this the end of our long and dangerous journey. Indeed, my dear friend, it passes all praise; and we can only go on with David, and sit before the Lord, and say, "Who am I? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me

hitherto; and this was yet a small thing in thy sight O Lord God! but thou hast spoken also of thy servant for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord God? Nay, but as the heavens are above the earth, so are thy ways above our ways, and thy thoughts above our thoughts."

Not having by me a copy of my little book, I cannot exactly refer to what you allude; but I may be able to say all that is necessary to one who waits, as I am sure you do, on your Lord's lips; and I pray that every word may fall on an obedient ear.

I am myself daily more and more convinced that the love of the church to Christ, is as real and sensible an attachment, in proportion to its strength, as any affection of the sort towards the objects of sense, and that this affection really existing, manifests itself in the same way by actions, agreeable to the wishes of the object of its choice. The only notion I have of Christian perfection in this state either in knowledge or conduct, is the attainment of, or entering into Christ. Perfection in knowledge, is the aiming after by the Holy Ghost, a full knowledge of Christ in the heights of his glory, in the depths of his humiliation, in the omnipotence of his power, in the tremblings of his weakness, as the Creator of the universe, and the Judge of the world, and the Lamb slain from before the

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