Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine, 1913, p. 14-15

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Emily Clough Peabody, editor. Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine. Chicago, Illinois, USA: The Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior (Room 1315, 19 South La Salle Street), 1913. In English. (30 pages). Pages 14-15 include information on Hovhannes Eskijian.

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Title Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine, 1913, p. 14-15

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Source 20230913-dadrian-eskijian (batch), Hovhannes Eskijian Archival Materials (subcollection), University of Southern California (contributing entity), Vahakn Dadrian Papers (collection)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu (digital); eskijian@ararat-eskijian-museum.com (original)

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections (digital); Ararat-Eskijian Museum (physical)

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 (digital); 15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, CA 91345 (physical)

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Content holocaust in the Gregorian Church, where some three thou-

nd having gone for refuge, perished. Monday, the work
wwas declared done. The Kourds and Arabs were driven
way by the soldiers and announcements made that people
were safe

“Slowly they began to come out of their hiding hotes—
wells, vaults, drains and all imaginable places—some not
having tasted food since Saturday. ‘The dead number about
five thousand and the Protestant loss is one hundred and ten.
‘Our pastor and several important leaders are killed. T have
the pastor's six children with me; their mother died two
years ago and they have no one who so properly as myself
can care for thei. My servant, Hagopjan, remained close
by me through all those perilous hours.

“Everybody's house is empty. There is no work, no
confidence in the Government, all are utterly crushed.
am told that the Sultan himself sent a telegeam for my pro-
tection, While Tam thankful I am spared that T may seree,
yet T would willingly have died thae parents might have
been spared to their children. ‘The end we see not. We are
ina thick cloud, but Goal lives and we will trust Him though
all expected help of man fail.”

‘ust after the massacre the Pasha sent an officer to in-
quire whae Miss Shattuck needed for her household. Her
requests were speedily granted, and among the provisions
was « bag of white flour as a special gift for herself. She
sent back word, "There i no diffrence here; the wl
flour and the brown flour will be used together for all.”

Miss Shattuck’s courage and resourcefulness saved at
least three hundred lives during those frightful hours of mas-
sacte, But now she was confronted with a situation which
taved her abilities to the utmost. The hundreds of destitute

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people were in need of food, clothing, and the means to make
their own living. Their faith in God had received a ter-
rible shock and they questioned His goodness. Before the
schgol could be opened or services resumed in the churches
relief work was necessary. Gifts of money from other parts
of Turkey, from the Red Cross Society, and from friends in
‘America provided clothing and some few household neces-
sities, ‘The widows were put at work tying mattresses and
Guilts, and it was a great satisfaction to all when conditions.
were enough improved so that school work could be resumed
and the teaching by the Bible women. One sorrowing
widow remarked, “Te takes the fire out of my heart to read
Goil's words.” ‘Truly, “God's word and their work were
the two blessed panaceas for those sorely afflicted women.”

‘After as many orphans as possible had been placed with
relatives and friends, there still remained over three thou-
sand unprovided for. From these Miss Shattuck took sixty _
boys and girls under her care, but the number soon grew
to one hundred and fifty, although they took none whose
mothers had been left with less than four children. Before
long the accommodations were overcrowded and Miss Shat-
tuck was obliged to send half the boys to the German or-
phanage. Her motherly heart hated to part with any of
them for, as she says in a letter, “Long has it been in our
mind as a hard, hard thing to send any away, yet it is the
right thing that about one-half go, so the Lord will help us
cover this. However, as I looked them over at prayers last
evening I was glad I'did not know which.”

Denied children of her own, Miss Shattuck became the
‘mother of Armenian orphans, She had a parent's heart for
them, ‘There was no woman in the land who had as big
nursery as she, and the organization of these helpless women.

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Inherited Values

Title Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine, 1913 [cover]

Alternative Title Hayasdani Gotchnag 1941 (supplied title)

Description Emily Clough Peabody, editor. Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine. Chicago, Illinois, USA: The Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior (Room 1315, 19 South La Salle Street), 1913. In English. (30 pages). Pages 14-15 include information on Hovhannes Eskijian.

Subject Eskijian, Hovhannes, 1882-1916 (personal name), Shattuck, Corinna (personal name)

Coverage Spatial 19 South La Salle Street (roadways), Chicago (cities), Illinois (states), North America (continents), USA (countries)

Inherited Subject Eskijian, Hovhannes, 1882-1916 (personal name), Shattuck, Corinna (personal name)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu (digital); eskijian@ararat-eskijian-museum.com (original)

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections (digital); Ararat-Eskijian Museum (physical)

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 (digital); 15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, CA 91345 (physical)

Rights Elmajian, E.E.; Peabody, Emily Clough; Shattuck, Corinna; The Gotchnag; Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior

Creator Elmajian, E.E. (writer), Peabody, Emily Clough (editor), Shattuck, Corinna (writer)

Contributor Ararat-Eskijian Museum (donor)

Publisher Hayaskani Gotchnag (original), The Gotchnag (original), University of Southern California. Libraries (digital), Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior (Room 1315, 19 South La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA) (original), Հայասդանի Գոթչնակ (original)

Date Issued 1913, 1941-05-03

Type texts