he Dead--The
Female Pilgrims--Their Returning 91-101

X. The Shiite Moslem's Mu-har-ram--Singers 101-11

XI. Heaven and Hell 112-15

XII. Matrimony 115-20

PART III.

I. The Royal Family--The King in his Palace--His
Table--Treasury--Wives 120-28

II. Governor--Prisons--Executions 128-34

III. Counts or Lords 134-36

IV. Cities--Holidays--Schools 136-44

PART IV.

I. Bobeism--Bobe--His Doctrine--His Personal Appearance 145-52

II. The Kurds--Occupation--Their Character--Houses--Religion 153-59

PART V.

I. The Nestorians--Their Place--Language 160-62

II. Their History 163-64

III. Clergy 164-65

IV. Churches and Ordinances 166-70

V. Assyrian or Nestorian College 170-71

VI. Assyrian Missionary Spirit 172-74

VII. Their Persecutions 174-79

VIII. Their Condition at the time American Missions
were started 179-80

PART VI.

I. Introduction of Mission Work 181-83

II. Method of Work 183-86

III. Development of Mission Work 187-90

IV. Religious Education--College--Ladies'
Seminary---Medical Schools--Country
Schools--Translation of Books 190-201

V. The Gospel and Temporal
Improvement--Temperance--Conversion to
Mohammedanism--Morals Elevated 201-10

VI. Mission Work among Moslems 210-11

[Illustration: M. G. DANIEL.]

LIFE OF MOOSHIE G. DANIEL IN PERSIA.

The ancestors of M. G. Daniel, a true stock of the Nestorian sect and
Syrian nationality came down from Kurdiston mountain in 1740 and
settled in Persia at Oroomiah district. The one family now increased to
fifty, all live in villages near to each other. G. Daniel with his four
brothers settled in a small village four