Show 1 I I I ELDER AND RIFE FLEE FROM MOBS Missionaries Suffer Harrowing Harrowing Harrowing Har Har- rowing Experiences in Persia To nee flee on horseback ck with his wife and old four baby by before an infuriated In Infuriated In in- ted mob of ot Kurds Kurd Is this tho experience experience ence which came camo to Elder Frank Fronk F FOster FOster FOster Oster a Seventh day Adventist missionary mission mission- ary cry in Persia as given alven by him In a communication com corn Just received by friends In Salt Halt Lake L. He was obliged ed to flee from leaving heaving everything behind IThe The Tho tho the town the day after h ho loft left Ho reports many Christiana Chris Chrls- tiana and Moslems killed by Kurds at and Seventh day Adventists having a II company at the latter place Writing to friends Mr Mrs Oster de describes describes de de- scribes the hardships of oC Persian mis mis- missionaries Sho She says Bays You see Hee by the tho heading that we wo arc arcIn arcIn arcIn In Tabriz The Tho dreadful Kurds came down on ha and amI we fled as did nearly all Christians ns there The ell city of or that the Kurds Kurda took bo- bo fore they came caine to laro h was plundered plundered plundered dered anti and burned by them Tho The children were thrown Into the tIle Ic Ice cold cold river and the women were treated dr dread dread- ad- ad fUll fully u il Such news came to u us so we wo bought a horse and left leU b by n night with the tho Russian n arm army of at men retreating front from M I rode tho the horse with our weeks old baby while Mr Osler Osier led him Wo Yo left everything ex excepting excepting ex- ex what we had on our backs and could pack In the l' l saddle bags baits Mr Oster ter carried a small grip on his back Smother Baby's CrIes The Tho first twelve hours were anxious ones OI The soldiers were welo afraid of oC an attack any n time they marched In dead silence When hen bal baby cried the officers asked me to cover her face faco for fear the enem enemy would woul- hear The road was wast t terrible for It had been snowing then too we did tIld not take the good road hut went In a round about wa way over the mount mountains 1 to avoid tho the Kurds and Turks That first night and da day I kept the sad saddle saddle- lo- lo for or fourteen hours without a rentI test rent I must not tell more only that we wo I arrived ed safely I felt better than when hen I 1 started on only 1 was very ery tired WInona Inona I Luclle Luelle stood the tho trip fine We Wo fell tell off art the horse once right In a small stream m. i A soldier helped us a bit He thou thought ht baby was Willi a bundle of ot something we wo I Idid I Idid did lid not wish so threw her over to one I side of the road Some things wo we had taken had to b be left on th the tho road at nt this place for rol the load was too he heavy hetor for tor forthe forthe j jIon the horse Mr r. r Oster had llad fixed straps Ion on a board We oe nut out a big pillow next I to to this board th then n bOb bah baby on tho the pil pil- low aw an and a smaller pillow on top then baby and pillows pillow were strapped tight to the board hoard and tho the front of th the saddle She seemed to enjoy the tho ride and did not care whether her head was up or 01 down clown or how much she sheaR wan aR Jolted We have been wonderfully cared for forby or orby orby by Go God Gol Thc Tue J Kurds and Turks took I this his place also but hut no murdering took place place Now tho the Russians R have retaken Tabriz and w we fe feel eel l quite safe aR again ln Just six miles mills from here SOO 00 Kurds were killed killel COO OO taken prisoners l and I nhAt SOO rno AA The Ground was r strewn 1 with bOl their bodies le B Because ca of their defeat we fear tear the they will take vengeance yen ven n- n on but wo cannot tell As yet et the Ru Russians ians are aro not strongly tron ly enough enforced to go o down donn to Iara ha We do not know If tr they must wait until they are arc through fI fighting the G Germans or 01 not Refugees Flee Barefooted This Is II a dreadful time throughout tho the world We e have seen much real suffering Hundreds o of r refugees fuKe s arc aro fleeing through the Snow barefooted Many Jan are dying from starvation It Is Just too terrible We Ve are aro kindly cared for tor here herl by the tho ho Presbyterian missionaries missionaries missionaries mission mission- aries from Crom America We are not yet et out of dan danger er for the Turks are strong near the this boundary and with the Kurds to help we surely have hae something to fear tear V We Ye aro arc tru trusting i In God who is much ml mightier than all t thee these armies We oe are arc safe a in His l keeping A perilous journ Journey El Elder Eider er Oster Cater re recently re- re made through the country countr of the war like Kurds Curds to assist the tho fa family II nf of oCa ofa a minister who was drafted Into the tho war Is graphically l described h by Ii him Ho mentions being called upon at t at one place to preach to people upon a housetop housetop house house- top tot b by th the light of or the moon He says pas Shortly a after the war broke out InI in I- I the writer set et out on a It trip Jo Elder Eider had been ordered to the lie front leaving hl his family with another German family compelled me to go 10 by way n of through the land of the terrible terrible tel ter ter- ter Kurds Kurdt T I was very veo glad for this opportunity for or I J had lon long wanted w to visit that place and call c. on some borne acquaintances ac cc- along the lie way My first 1 stop was WilS at Rt meaning two waters water where I remained d one day iia I J stayed with Ith an American family Tn In the evening e I spoke to a small gather athel In ing about the tle signs o of tho the times IH is a town o of about 0 people mo most t of whom are arc Kurds There are nl also o Turk Turks Armenians Jews Jacobites and Ne torl Persian sol sol sol- diers are le stationed th there I a na RS a safeguard against th the tho Turk While there I en- en tho the hospitality of or the American Lutheran mission In the tho evening I had h a study on The Eastern Question J I met one Jew who I is now a n Chris Chrls- ion I had a long visit with him durIng dur dur- ing which he asked a great Inan many ques ques- questions concerning our teachings Meeting on Roof At the tho n next stopping place at Mam- Mam wo we had a unique meeting Quite a congregation atlon met on the tho roof root of or the tho local pastors pastor's s house In the this lI light ht of the tho lIv IY moon T I cave n a 11 discourse I on the second coming of or Christ which was lI listened to attentively At t I found tho the gates bates closely guarded On entering an officer took tool me In charge an and led me to tho lie governors governor's governors governor's gov gov- office where after arter asking me mea a ft few ew questions question he lie released me The whole Christian population seemed to tobe tobe tobe be celebrating the Ru Russian sl n victories I Processions headed b by Russian priests with long flowing locks belts were marching through the streets with banners b The Russians were threatening to destroy the tho German ml mission glon and to drive rl all Germans out of or town I J found tho the Seventh day Adventists faithful and re rejoicing rejoicing re- re In lie tho truth I had planned to visit coats som of or the I villages around around and nd had al already ci- ci ready reach engaged m my horse when things tool took a sudden turn It tJ that the tho al 1 I Russians Russian had suffered some reverses re In Europe and that all the tho Russian troops In Persia were to he recalled at once Their Theil baggage and everything f was sent SNIt on ahead to the Russian border War ar ar with Turkey seemed Imminent Shops were ere clo closed merchants stored away awny their Joo goods s. s and hundreds of or Armenians Ile begun an to leave for Tabriz and Russia Everybody feared a Kurdish raid Wo We secured a carriage ge and I e escorted corte 1 Mrs Mra Sperling and children to tho the Ru Ruc IRn boundary The Tue same fear was entertained at ha As a n matter of or fact soon after arter my arrival home the tho Kurds several oral thousands of oC them did sweep down on plain and plundered tw twelve lve villages s. s coming within with with- in fifteen minutes minutes' walk of city where reinforcements from froni Khoy arrived and drove them back The are much like locusts thc they leave nothing but r ruin ln In their track tr When I arrived at Tabriz I found foun Mrs Mis- Its ready rend to n flee o o to Teheran The Tho Germans German th there re like e In had been blen threatened b by the Russians thou though h at the time lime It was quiet In fact tho the German consul waa wa down with nervous prostration as a result of or a threat on his life bv by a Russian officer In counsel with Mrs lIra ubert t sho the thought heat best to stay In Tabriz Since then all the tho Germans In Tabriz InoC In- In of oC need nr It b behooves ever every ever one ono o of us UK to be prepared for the cents of or thelast the tho last three months show to us how quickly Daniel 12 1 ma may be bo fulfilled when the thc winds of or strife are arc let loose |