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Show BROKEN LEG PERSUADES MOSLEM GOVERNOR TO AID SPRINGVILLE MISSIONARIES from his sick bed he asks that our work in the schools be opened. We see the hand of God in this. With love to you all, (MHS. W. P.) JESSIE LEE ELLIS. (Extracts from letter from Mr s. Jessie Lee Ellis to the Synod of Utah. Mrs. Ellis was formerly of ' Spanish Fork and received her early ! education iu Springville.) Utl'MIA, PERSIA, Oct. 20, 1923. When we left America about a vear nco the latest news was of Kurds fighting" near Trumia. When we came from Bagdad, north, we heard that tin? Kurds vpi being driven oat and order being restored, and that the missionaries could ro-s.unc ro-s.unc work. We wanted to he anions the first and telegraphed lo re mission in Tibr'z to send us V' Krnniin, bur they had other plans for us, so wo went on to Zoii.jan tor the winter, along with Mi, and Mrs. Pitman. Zenjan, as you know, is a i ew field and we were to take up touring there. We were delayed in Ramadan for nearly six weeks with sickness. Little Margaret was sick with malaria, ma-laria, and the trouble could not be diagnosed till she was near death's ilw. We feel that it was through (he prayers of the missionaries and the native church that she was spared to ns. It gave us a new sr.nse of dependence on God. Dr. Ellis wont on to Zenjan and I followed fol-lowed on December G. The field is a fanatical one. A movement was : on foot to eject Mr. and Mrs. Pit- 1 man from the city. While this feeling feel-ing was at its height, the gover- j iku-'s daughter fell ill and he called J. Dr. Ellis. The news spread quickly and a she began to recover we were on a wave of popular favor. If the chief religious men consulted us wo i must he all right. Then the jealous native doctors tried to frighten us, and to get the officials against us; . hut the work of our missionaries only the more increased. Mr. Pitman Pit-man had oppor unitv to get into '.iri-.-ie and talK on religious mat- ; s and I could get the mothers into a meeting and preach Christ to them. Along in April came the word that we were to go to T'rumia. The work was at its height in Zenjan ami pivimiiient persons wrote to the mission at Tabriz to let us stay in Zenjnn. But the way was now open ! for other missionaries to keep up tins work so we folded our tents, mwl like the A'v-i; : .' ..1., .ent awny. We went in true Arab styles, liy caravans. All our stuff was j loaded on the backs of mules and a motley procession it was of forty I or fifty animals. 1 Our journey to I'rumia followed the line of our deportation five years ago. It was a thrilling exper-; exper-; ience. We went by train to the lake and spent the night sleeping on the porch of the railroad station, sta-tion, as all rooms were full. Next liny we boarded the boat, and it was long after dark when our bout bore into the harbor. As the pier had been torn away during the war and had never been fully rebuilt the little steamer had to anchor quite a ways out. so lillle rowlioats en meant me-ant for us. There were many inserts in-serts on the boat, but I bad aimost rather brave them than see my lillle! children dropped into the tossing' I rouho.-its so fur from the steamer's I i edue. It took about as much eour-; eour-; age to see the children tied in I blankets and let down to waiting arms below as it took for me to face the Turks five years before. ; 1'Ut at last the three were safely down mid I, too, with my babe in my arms and my feet reposing in a consiimily increasing pool of water, i Wo spent the night in the. tidy l I Nenst Kst rest room, and next morning took carriage to Uruinia up through lovely fields and orchards' or-chards' and vineyards such as are not found elsewherein l'ersia on to I'ruiuia, the beautiful! I Hr. Ellis was soon in the medical work us of yore nnd found former friends and patients. We began to ; Pick up friendships which we i feared the war had destroyed. We i went to see about our properties, and were soon over the city yard where was complete desolation. The two resdences' former positions could be traced by the foundations, also Fiske seminary and the city church, the back wall of which rose : stark and l,moly In the midst of ruin. Juyt great mounds of earth ' und debris was about all. to be seen with a few scattered bones here and men-, though most of those redlining re-dlining iifter the war had been recently re-cently buried. We were sad to see that nil the lovely elms and china rs lnid been cut down save one which ""d a storks nest In it and which was im.hnhly spnred on that ac-count. ac-count. In our hopes we had visions or a now Fiske seminary nnd new uomes yet to be. if tied wills. All that remained of our home was a! wip of dirt and plaster, but we wiild trace where the foundations wore. The governor here was verv much mosed to our work. Hut when lie r"ko his leg he called for r. 'hs, and now he is so far friendlv 'is as to call the Christian doctor. uylit nud day for five weeks; and i |