A LIFE INDOMITABLE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 3, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 14.

“A LIFE INDOMITABLE.”

Kasha Oshana, who has lately come down from the mountains, says that while he was at Memiken, in Gawar, there came to him the wife of a Kurdish chief, whom he recognized as Johanna, a Nestorian woman, who, as a girl, was stolen for her beauty and carried away by the Kurds. This was forty years ago, when Mr. Rhea was staying in Memiken, and now she comes begging to be allowed to partake of the Lord’s supper. Think of forty years spent among the Kurds surrounded by utter spiritual darkness! And yet the little light she had has been fed and kept burning. She had taken her little Testament with her when she was abducted, probably one received from Mr. Rhea, and a translation of Spurgeon’s “Morning by Morning,” and she has insisted upon reading in them every day, tho forbidden by her husband. She said to him, “My Testament is my very life; I shall die unless you let me read it.”—Assembly Herald.