The Publishers of this Volume will issue shortly, by the same Author, Ministering Women; or, LOVING COUNSELS TO CHRISTIAN WORKERS, also Cups of Consolation, and CRUMBS OF COMFORT FOR CHRIST'S LITTLE CHILDREN, -:0: ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH & COMPANY, 770 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. -:0: THE ROMANCE OF MISSIONS: OR, INSIDE VIEWS OF LIFE AND LABOR, IN THE LAND OF ARARAT. BY MARIA A. WEST, MISSIONARY OF THE AMERICAN BOARD IN TURKEY, AUTHOR OF "Key to Open the Bible," AND "LOVING Counsels for the Chris WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MRS. CHARLES, AUTHOR OF "THE SCHÖNBERG-COTTA CHRONICLES," ETC., ETC. NEW YORK: ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH & COMPANY, ΤΟ THE MINISTERING WOMEN OF AMERICA AND ENGLAND, WHO, LIKE THE MARYS AND MARTHAS, THE JOANNAS AND SUSANNAS OF OLD, FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE MASTER, "MINISTERING TO HIM OF THEIR SUBSTANCE," IN PALACE BEAUTIFUL, OR IN LOWLY COTTAGE, IN "EVERY CITY AND VILLAGE" WHERE HE, IN THE PERSON OF HIS DISCIPLES, IS "PREACHING AND SHOWING 1 THE GLAD TIDINGS OF THE KING DOM OF GOD," AND ESPECIALLY TO MY BELOVED FRIEND MRS. CHRISTOPHER R. ROBERT, OF NEW YORK, WHO, FOR TEN YEARS, VOLUNTARILY AND GENEROUSLY DEFRAYED THE EXPENSES OF MY MISSIONARY LIFE, AVOIDING ALL PUBLIC ACKNOWLEDGMENT, AND ONLY STIPULAT ING THAT I SHOULD REST, WHEN WORN AND WEARY, THESE SKETCHES ARE LOVINGLY INSCRIBED. |