A Residence Eight Years in Persia, Among the Nestorian Christians: With Notices of the Muhammedans (Classic Reprint)

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Some brief portions of the' Journal, have appeared iri the form of extracts, in the Missionary Herald but not enough, it is believed, to impair the interest of their perusal, as here introduced in a con nected, modified and fuller form. The narrative style is mostly adopted for reasons that will appear in the perusal. The fact that no American was ever a resident in that ancient and celebrated country before me, and the position which the Nestorian church now occupies in the sympathies of Christendom, and its relation to the prospective extension of the ltedeemer's kingdom, are circum stances which will, perhaps, tend to impart a somewhat special ih terest to this volume.

Every writer on Eastern countries feels the difficulty of being ao curate, where there is so little intellectual discipline and still less moral principle. This volume is, however, so much the result of personal observation, as to be little affected by those dith culties, except that a growing conviction, that the statements of orientals are not in general to be trusted, has made me the more careful to become personally acquainted with the facts, in all cases. Mar Yohan'han, moreover, having been with me, in this country, during my preparation of the matter for the press, I have referred to him, on any points respecting which I had doubt. I do not, af ter all, claim for the work entire freedom from errors.

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