The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-09-18
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.

The following letter, from Mrs. r. A.
Richardson, youngest sister Of J. T.
Scott, Esq, Of Forest Grove, who has
been a missionary for The past twenty
six years in Asia, almost opposite Con-
stautinople, was addressed to a brother
in-law in Kansas, aud thence forwarded
TO the Athens Of tile Pacific, from which
classic retreat it has found its way to
our sauctum. We are sure the average
reader viii agree with US that the letter
possesses all the greater charm because
il was not written for publication:
GULF OF THEssALoNIA, Macedonia,
French Stmr. Gyptis, May 6, 1879. !
Ny DEAR BRorHER:-If 1 mistake
not, you are this day three score and
thirteen. May you live forever, resting
at last in the kingdom OF our God
Here we are, Mr.. Richardson and I,
on board the good steamer Gyptis, Cap
tain Lstile, looking on the same bills,
mountains and shores and rocking on
the same waters that were looked upon
by Paul when obeying the heavenly in
junction 20 "C0me over 10 Macedonia
and help US"
You have heard before Of the pro
tracted aud dangerous illness Of Mr..
Richardson. The whole sickness was
attended by great degree Of nervous
exhaustion, which developed into a
chronic condition that caused Us all
much anxiety. But, thanks 10 the
mercy Of our Heavenly Father, he is
now able 10 start on a journey for rest
and change.
We left Constantinople last Saturday,
the g inst, ca route for England, = ,ot-
land, Germany aui Switzerland. ria
Thess8louja, Athens, Naples, Liverpool,
London aud Edinburgh. AT Naples We
expect TO leave the French steamer aud
take passage in an English one, which
we hope 10 reach about the 25th OF this
month. We are TO go from place to
place slowly and quietly, that Mr.. r.
may have rest and the benefit Of thor
ough change. We expect to return to
COnstsntinOpie by November lst. We
left our two youngest sons in that city,
Ia care Of Rev. Alex. Thomson, ID. D.,
agent Of the British and Foreign Bible
Society. John is learning to be clerk
in the employ of Rev. Mr. Baldwin of
the American Board iu The Bible House
in COnstantinople. Onr daughter, with
her husband aud little Agnes, met US
here to-day. They came in an Austrian
steamer from Philipopolis, where they
have been attending tie annual meeting
of the Bulgarian Mission. They left US
in Bebek, April 2lst. They expect TO
reach their home in Monastir the last
Of this week.
The rain to-day has kept Us on the
steamer, or we should have been on the
shore, imagining that we were walking
in the footsteps Of ST. Paul.
II was proposed that we go to Amer
ica, but we thought something more
quiet would be better for Mr.. r. We are
seeking the most quiet routes aud places
for six months.
On this French steamer we have two
meals a day-hTeakiast at 9 A. N. aud
dinner at > p. " Then, at S p. NJ, we
have tea-only tea, without milk-with
some tiny sweet crackers. just here the
bell rang for breakfast. We sat down,
fret, to artichokes. TO be eaten with
olive OIL mustard, salt, pepper aud vim
egari secoud, Bologna sausage, uu-
cooked, and sliced thin, and black olives
IN oilve Oh, salted aud peppered third,
coIu roast mutton and chicken, with
lettuce lourthi mussels on rice fifth.
mutton chops and fried potstoes. with
cntrce OF Sleeps feet and curry sauce !.
sixth, chease-S giss, 7 think II never
saw It iu AM-.-.I -4vanfb a,,,tas
raisins aud cherries; eighth, black eoc
fee. with sugar, and perfectly clear
Breakfast on French steamer al .vavs
begins with olives and Bologna sau,sg
and ends with cheese and biack ..,ff-,
will try to write you frequentl, ,iur.
ing our jOurneyings, and should be a. 81
happy 10 visit you all in America ou,,
again before our earthly mission closes
Ever lovingly,
r. a. RICHARDSON.