Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-08-05 | Page 2 | Utah Woman to Sail for Persia

UTAH UN TO .SJUL FDRPERSU Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Ellis Resume Re-sume Missionary Work Plans havs been completed for the salllnv from New York harbor on Au-c-ust : of Dr. W. P. Kills snd his wtfe, "lra. Jeaas Lre Kills. Presbyterian mission mis-sion srles. to establish a hospital and missionary station at Zenjan, Persia. Mrs. Kills Is a L'tah woman, native of Spanish Fork and daughter of the Rev. Theodore Lee, veteran minister of that place. The missionaries are stopping In Halt Laks for ft few dayr en route on the return vacation trip to California to the Atlantic coaat and then.ee to resume their work as missionaries which was carried on during the lata war.. under BansiArab.e difficult v, w . 1 A little more than six years ago the young couple, then married only a short ! time, managed to reach their station In Persia. There they were associated with a group of medical and teaching mlsslonarlea. There were a well-equipped well-equipped hospital, an orphanage and other centera of work In the city of. Urumia and on the Vrumla plain. In the fateful days of July and Aa- j gust, lsls, tho hospital compound was submerged by the tides of war on ths ; Urumia plain. On July 11. 11, the j misalon was taken over by the Invad- Ing Turks. Dr. and Mrs. Kills and fsmlly snd all members of ths mission were taken prisoner by the Turks. They were held for two or three months and deported to Tabrls. where. In a Turk-looted Turk-looted hospital, the missionary work wss continued. In the midst of battle, violence snd pestilence, this group of American missionaries mis-sionaries stuck to their poats. Then I they were forced to leave Tabrlx, under I ! British protection, on account of a ' threatened Invasion by the bolshevists from tba north. j SPANI8H FORK. Aug. . Dr. W. P. ' Kills and Mrs. Jesse Lee Ellis, mis- I slonartes. the latter a daughter of the Rev. Theodora Lee. were honor gueata : at a farewell gathering of friends and ' I relatives held in ths local Presbyterian Presby-terian church Friday evening. The couple will soon sail from New Tork City for Persia, thsre to reestablish their mission first started during ths lata war. Dr. and Mrs. Kills will bs tha speak- ' era at ana Sunday services to ba held In lha lYesbyterlan church.