The Penn's Grove record., 1900-08-17
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BOUND FOR PERSIA.
DR.. William s.. vanneman and Family
Leave with others this Saturday.
After q visit of fourteen months DR..
William s. Vanneman, a native Of Up
per Penn's Neck and formerly of Man
nlDgton. will sail this Saturday for
Persia, after q visit of fourteen months
in America. It was ten years ago this
coming September since be and wife
Marguerite, first sailed for Persia, to be
medical missionaries. and after a stay
OF eight years and six months in that
country they returned in June Of last
year with their three daughters, Aimee
Sherin, Dorothy and Irene, now aged
=, 8 and 4 years. They leave Philadel-
phia this Friday morning for New
York where they will meet the Presby-
teIian Missionary Board and the other
missionaries who are to return with
them. On Saturday morning they sail
on the steamer Mesaba for London,
thence to Berlin. Moscow; south to
Tihis, the end of the railway, and the
rest OF the route to Tabriz in carriages,
or BY horses and camels. The journey
will take six weeks.
Besides their daughters they will be
accompanied by Rev. ]. L. Potter, D..
D., Miss Sue Leinback, Dr. Jessie Will
son and DR.. Emma I. Miller, returning
missionaries; also by DR.. Blanche Will
son. Rev. G. G. Sterrett and Rev.
Charles Pittman, new missionaries.
The Presbyterian Church at Poagh-
keepsie, N. Y, raises ST., 600 in its Sun
day School for missions and the mem
bers consider DR.. VaDneman the mis-
sionary Of their church. DR.. Vanne-
man and family spent q week with the
congregation Of that church last month
and was presented with 500, as a spec
ial donation.
lDr. Vauneman receives a salary of
$1,000 year from tie Presbyterian
Missionary Board, One-tenth OF which
he gives back to the Board. He also
receives 500 a year for each of his
three children with which to educate
them. he thus receives $1,000 q year,
and is not allowed to recelye any money
or article of value. He charges for
d~0ct0ring those in Persia who are able
to pay, and all fees go to the Mission
Board. The last year he was in Persia
he received in fees for tile Board 81, 900.
He usually charges the poor the small
est sum possible for if no charges are
made they will take all the medicine at
once. II a charge is made. however
small, they will take it as directed.
While in America he receives his sal
airy and while travelling his expenses
are paid.
A MISSIONARY CALL.
The friends and relatives did not care
for DR.. Vanneman to return to that far
away, ancient country, but to the APP
peal to remain in America he wrote as
follows to his aunt last April:
Il intend to return t Persia because
/ feel it my duty to do SO. We're there
ne other reason but to relieve human
suffering I should feel it my duty to go.
Persia is q country without trained
physicians and the suffering there is
very great. I know OF no place in the
world where | a do so much good.
.But there is a greater reason for
my going than the relief Of human
suffering. 1t Is The last command of
our Lord, 'Goye into all the world and
preach tina gospel to every creature
This command is. binding on every
Christian to-day just as much SO as it
was on the Disciples two thousand
years ago. All Christians can not go
on the mission field but all can help in
some way. l feel that ] am one that
can 90 aud 4 find no satisfactory
excuse for staying at home in America.
Those that can not go a help others
to do SO by supporting mission work
BY their means and their prayers.
Fer the trials and loneliness of mis-
siOnary life, we have n great consola-
tiOn, the thought Of which often bright.
ems U lives when far away from rela-
lives and friends. The consolation is
this, 10 / am with you Away ever I'M
to the end of tile world These words
Of our Lord compensate for the great
loss We feel in leaving relatives, friends
and the homeland.
s.Tilere is no pleasure in missionary
life other than the pleasure of knowing
that We are doing our duty and the
pleasure Of seeing Others brought to
Christ. There is no worldly pleasure
that OIle should desire to live in Persia,
but we AIRS not working for this world.
II so, Persia would be the last place we
should select. Feeling that we are
chostiI 10 work in CbrisL's kingdom in
distant Persia, there is no other place
in the world where we would feel so
much real Happiness than the place
where re feel we ought to be.
Medical work in Persia is the most
important kind Of mission work. By
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