Terry, Lyons, M. B.D H.D er of Me End, Love fr A NORTHERN ARMENIAN MISSION. Palu District-Prejudices-Hoshmat, 233 The Corresponding Secretaries of the Board are Rev. RUFUS ANDERSON, Rev. SELAR B. TREAT, Rev. SWAN L. POMROY, and Rev. GEORGE W. WOOD. Letters relating to the Mis sions and General Concerns of the Board, may be addressed SECRETARIES OF THE A. B. C. F. M. Missionary House, 33 Pemberton Square, Boston. Letters intended for the Corresponding Secretary resident in New York may be addressed Rev. GEORGE W. WOOD, Bible House, Astor Place, New York city. Donations and letters relating to the Pecuniary Concerns of the Board, (except letters on the subject of the Missionary Herald,) should be addressed JAMES M. GORDON, Treasurer of the A. B. C. F. M. Missionary House, 33 Pemberton Square, Boston. 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They had all heard of us; and judging LETTERS FROM MR. ALLEN, MARCH 19, from their usually hostile attitude, had AND APRIL 17, 1858. IN the first of these letters, Mr. Allen reports a tour, in company with Mr. Dunmore, to a portion of the field connected with the Kharpoot station, respecting which little account has heretofore been given. It lies northeast from Kharpoot, on both sides of the east branch of the Euphrates, in the vicinity of Palu. The account which he furnishes of different towns, villages, and clusters of villages, upon different plains bordering on the river, and in various positions among the mountains and hills, as well as most of the details of the journey and of incidents in different places, must be omitted. Some interesting general statements, and an account of an exciting scene of violence, in which the lives of our brethren were put in jeopardy, will be found in portions of the letter here presented. The Palu District—Prejudices. There are at least 200 villages in the Palu district; some containing half a dozen houses, while others have 400 or 500. Fifty thousand is probably a low estimate of the population of that part of our field; a large proportion being Armenian. During our tour we visited twenty villages. Most of them had never been visited by missionaries before, and the people to their church, sat with them | sides, beating our heads and faces, with until their services were concluded, and then went quietly away. As we came into the street a large crowd of people was assembled, with whom we began to converse in a very friendly manner. They asked if we knew who built their church, saying that it was built by the Apostle Thaddeus. We endeavored to show them that they were mistaken, telling them that in the time of Thaddeus, the Armenian nation was far to the eastward, in Persia; and more than all this, the Armenians were not Christianized until the time of Gregory the Illuminator, who lived several hundred years later than Thaddeus. "But admitting that your church was built by that apostle," we said, "of what use is that to you? Here is the Testament which we know was written by many apostles. Here are recorded the commands of Christ, which we are to obey first of all." Violent Opposition. Mr. In this manner we talked with them for some time. Some of them asked insulting questions, and others talked in a very loud tone, becoming more and more excited. The crowd had pressed close around us, as we stood on an elevated terrace, descending to the street. Dunmore was at my right, a little separated from Hohannes and myself. The chief speaker, evidently choosing his position at a little distance from Mr. Dunmore, who had a heavy cane, came up to Hohannes and began to talk in a very loud tone. At length he said that we had cursed their church. Hohannes replied, rather sharply, that it was not so, whereupon the fellow suddenly struck him in the face. I immediately interfered, trying to quiet the man and prevent any further harm, when he dealt me a blow on my head, and followed it by repeated blows which almost stunned me. He cried out, at the same time: "Whoever loves God, let him beat them." We were all separated from each other, while the mob pressed upon us on all hands and sticks. I continued facing the ringleader, warding off his blows, and those of others, as well as I could. Stunned by repeated strokes, I had fallen nearly to the ground, when one fellow struck me on my forehead with a cane, and another tried to stamp my head to the ground; but I sprang to my feet so quickly that he failed in his murderous purpose. Having started, this part of the crowd pressed forward, pushing me before them down the steep descent, towards the street. The ringleader was next to me, still beating me on the head, when in warding off his blows I chanced to run my hand into his hair, which I clenched and bore him to the ground, as the crowd were pushing me down the descent, and pulled him down with me; and over and over he rolled, to the bottom. I also fell, having been crowded off the side of the terrace wall, but was up again before any one had a chance to fall on me. At this moment I saw Mr. Dunmore near me, his face covered with blood. He threw his arm about me, as if to shield me from farther violence, crying out to the mob, "Stop! For mercy's sake stop! will you kill us!" But no sooner were we thus a little separated from the crowd, than a dozen or more of them seized large stones and hurled them at us. Some of these were of two or three pounds' weight. One struck me in the breast, and another hit Hohannes' arm. It is due only to an overruling Providence, that one or all of us were not killed outright by the many stones that were thrown. The man who struck me with a cane, son of the head-man of the village, seeing to what length they were going, tried to restrain their fury, and there was a temporary lull of the storm of rage. When the ringleader began to strike, Mr. Dunmore tried to interfere. He used no violence, however, though he might have crippled many of them with his cane. A part of them immediately turned upon him, striking him in the face and on the head. His efforts to come to my rescue were unavailing, and he was borne with the rush of the crowd, down the descent, where we joined each other in the midst of a shower of stones. We had no sooner picked up our hats, which were lost off in the melee, than the crowd again rushed upon us, pushing and pulling, to hurry us to our lodging place. One fellow came rushing after us, as we went along, his eyes glaring like a furious wild beast's, and attempted to strike us with his fist; but we were so surrounded by other enemies that he could not come near enough to reach us. Having reached the house where we were to stop for the night, two men planted themselves in the door-way, saying that we could not enter, it would defile the house. Several others ran to the stable and brought our horses; and as we did not immediately take the halters, they threw them, and let the horses loose. But the animals did not seem at all in sympathy with our persecutors, remaining quiet in the midst of the rabble while we made ready to go. The crowd cried out to us: "Away! away with you from our village." We said to them: "The Jews beat Christ and his Apostles in the same way. We are unworthy of such honor, and we are not only willing to suffer, but to die even for the sake of Christ. God have mercy upon you." More stones were thrown at us as we started, but we left without further harm, rejoicing that we were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name, who loved us and laid down his life for us. We rode an hour and a half in the darkness, over a very bad road, in some places being obliged to get off and feel out our way with a cane. Conduct of Officials. May At length we reached Palu, and went directly to the house of the Moodir's vakeel (deputy). The Moodir himself, having been recently appointed, had not yet come to the city. We represented the case to the vakeel and showed our wounds. Mr. Dunmore's face was well nigh covered with blood, he having received a severe blow on his nose, which had caused the blood to run profusely. Hohannes' arm was badly swollen. The blow from the cane had made a gash in my forehead, an inch long; while the swelling covered a space three inches long by one and a half broad. The vakeel was very kind to us, had water brought for us to wash, sent us a nice supper, and insisted on our occupying his guest's room. Nice, clean beds were brought, and after prayer we laid us down and slept sweetly till morning. The vakeel came at an early hour, had breakfast brought, and ate with us. He afterwards sent several cavasses to bring the men from Hoshmat. Hohannes accompanied them and made a list of thirty persons who were engaged in the assault upon us. Twenty-three of these were brought and put in prison, and after two or three days a few more were brought. We recognized some of them, pointed them out to the vakeel, and left him to inflict such punishment on them as he thought best. The ringleader in this affair, it is stated, murdered his own father a few years since. The missionaries were beset with entreaties that they would suffer the men to be let off without punishment, which they thought it not wise or safe to do; but when they had been in prison four days, the Moodir arrived and at once released them. On returning to Kharpoot the brethren made a statement of the case to the Pasha, who appeared friendly and had sent cavasses to arrest the guilty individuals. The Work at Palu. On account of this Hoshmat affair, we were detained some days in Palu, and had a good opportunity to observe what progress the work has made there. We have two helpers in the place, who preach the truth in the midst of violent opposition. One of them, the teacher of the school, was turned out of doors by his parents when he first embraced the truth. An Armenian said to one of the |