Identifier: inlandofararatsk00barr (find matches)
Title: In the land of Ararat, a sketch of the life of Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman Barrows Ussher, missionary to Turkey and a martyr of the great war
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Barrows, John Otis, 1833-1918
Subjects: Ussher, Elizabeth Freeman Barrows, 1873-1915 Missions -- Turkey Van Ili World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, Chicago : Fleming H. Revell
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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o raise somedoubt in regard to the exact site of the ancientGarden, one thing does seem, from the record,to be removed from the field of discussion,namely, that the illustrious descendant of Adamdid navigate his big ship to the top of Ararat,where it rested for a good while. And whenthe venerable patriarch finally let out hisstrange lot of passengers, he must have lookeddown upon the lovely valleys, that have eversince been the favourite home of mankind. Andso to live, it may be, in the very place whereit is thought that Adam and Eve sat under thetree, and ate the forbidden fruit; or, if not that,at least where Noah and his sons planted theirvineyards and watched their flocks, and to com-pare their mode of living, and ways of think-ing, with the latest results of scientific thoughtand invention, like wireless telegraphy and ma-chines, without life, that talk and sing—to bewhere, in your thought, these things meet, mustserve to kindle within one emotions most pe-culiar and most rare.
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THE RETURN TO THE FIELD 111 Mrs. Ussher, from her frequent allusion to theancient things about her, and even the indica-tions of the remains of things prehistoric, to-gether with her ever keen interest in the newestwonders of to-day, showed that she felt thatshe was in a world where the most distant ex-tremes, as has been long believed, are strangelymingled to form an unquestioned present. Thisadded a peculiar uniqueness to her home at Van. X IN THE HARITESS AGAIN THESE words were suggested to Mrs.Ussher by her experiences on the over-land journey when returning to her oldfield of labour. This journey was made bymeans of the heavy old springless vehicles—which we have already noticed—drawn byhorses that must make their way among rutsand rocks, or with spasmodic jerks in en-deavouring to extricate their load from bogs andmire. Sometimes the harness would break un-der unreasonable efforts to free the wagon fromits obstructions; or perhaps that would remainunmovable while its wheels

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