ar Brother Sallett, stationed at Teflis, was called
home: he died of the cholera.
"The circumstance with the Armenians is this: The two deacons
did go on in their spiritual life prosperously, and continued
to give testimony of the truth. This excited so much the hatred
of the Armenian clergy against them, that soon after Zaremba's
arrival in Shushee from Erzeroum, the Armenian Archbishop of
the Karabagh desired to have them sent as prisoners to
Etchmiazin, the seat of the Armenian Catholicos,[19] near
Erivan. This the Russian Governor of Shushee, after he was
informed of it from Zaremba, did not allow. So it got a little
quiet: but these young Armenians thought it impossible, at
present, to remain longer in Georgia, and so they prepared for
their departure to Germany. But during this time the Armenian
clergy got an order from the Russian Governor of Teflis, that
the two deacons should appear before a council in Etchmiazin.
The Governor in Shushee did again so much for them, that they
should go to Teflis, and be allowed to lay their case before
the governor. Zaremba went with them, though he was not quite
well. The one of these deacons, he who assisted Dittrich in
translation, died there, happy in his Lord. The other went
at last, but in a very good state of mind and heart, to
Etchmiazin, putting his confidence in his Lord, for whom he was
going to suffer. The brethren had not yet heard more of him
than his arrival there. During the time Zaremba was at Teflis,
the cholera took daily many away, and some days before his
departure, our beloved Saltett, as mentioned before. Zaremba
got worse too, but reached Shushee again. After his arrival, he
and Hohenaker, and Dittrich had been attacked from the cholera,
but recovered again. During this time the person from
Etchmiazin arrived in Shushee, and preached and spoke against
our brethren, and condemned all the persons who sent their
children to them. So the school was broken up. But now the
children are beginning to collect again, and the school is
again opened. Dittrich was with his family, yet at Teflis,
where Zaremba wrote the letter. Hohenaker was gone to the
German village, where you stopped, and Haas was kept in Moscow,
in quarantine, because of the cholera. Two Armenian tracts had
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