BISHOP STUART.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9307, 7 January 1896, Page 5

BISHOP STUART.

The Haicke's Bay Herald publishes the following jaragrapn :— •♦ Little has been heard of our late Bishop since he laid down, the crozier for the staff of the missionary in Persia, But a late number of the Church Mutionary Gleaner gives us just a glimpse of of him, sufficient, however, to show that his surroundings are by no means devoid of asnger. He is at the head of a party which includes several l*dy missionaries, ooaje month,* a go a woman named Julfa embraced Christianity and was baptised. *°f this ehe was repeatedly and severely waten by her father and uncle, who threatened to kill her. At length her brother, who was a candidate for baptism. *°°k her to the mission station, and placed her in the care of one of the lady

missionaries. Miss Bird. Then the head man of the village demanded that she should be given up to her father. Bishop Stuart replied that she was free to leave, but she refused to go and he would not give her up, except at the demand of the British Consul. Au infuriated mob surrounded tho mission station, and the account from which we quote says that had the Bishop kept the woman * there is no doubt the houee would have been entered and the women killed.' The British Consul was away, an Armenian acting as his substitute. Hβ declared that tho lives of all the Europeans were in imminent danger, and as the Bishop taw tbat the woman would certainly be murdered if he tried to protect , , her longer, he g*ve her up to the acting-Consul. He in turn immediately handed her over to the Persian authorities, uuder promise from thef-Jorernor tbat she would not be hurt. Here the account stops.